Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 38
At this Chin Pa laughed loud and long, but seeing the anxious and serious faces of the teachers he said, “I will take some soldiers and go after him, and if you wish I will kill him.”
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: laugh, see, say, take, go, wish · To what, where: Chin Pa, anxious faces, soldiers, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, you), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Pa | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Pa | nsubj |
| 3 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Pa | compound |
| 4 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obl |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laughed | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 long | cc |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loud | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 said | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 faces | det |
| 13 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faces | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 serious | cc |
| 15 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 anxious | conj |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seeing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 teachers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 teachers | det |
| 19 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 faces | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 take | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 take | aux |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 soldiers | det |
| 28 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | conj |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 go | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 kill | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 kill | cc |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 wish | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 wish | nsubj |
| 37 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 kill | advcl |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 kill | aux |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Chin Pa this | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the anxious faces of the teachers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | prince | some soldiers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | prince not said here | after prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | kill in a quote | future | prince | prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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