Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 51
He could not see, however, how there could be wisdom in such a small man as Han Hsin.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not see, 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: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 wisdom | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 however | conj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wisdom | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wisdom | cop |
| 12 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 man | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Hsin | case |
| 19 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hsin | compound |
| 20 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | could | prince | in such small man as Han Hsin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | could | wisdom | there | however property | 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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