Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 32
If he is strong enough for that, he may find something to do in my service.”
Who acts: man, my · What happens: be, find, do, service · To what, where: something, service
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: who acts (man, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 strong | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 find | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 strong | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 strong | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 something | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 service | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 service | nmod:poss |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | man | for that; enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | may | man | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | man not said here | something not said here | my service | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | service | my | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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