Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 27
How can there be wisdom in such a small boy?
What happens: be · To what, where: wisdom
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | aux |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wisdom | cop |
| 5 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 there | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 boy | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 there | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | wisdom | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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