Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 86
The kite came to rest for a few moments, and they heard a voice say, “You all have old and young in your homes.
Who acts: kite, officers, voice, You · What happens: come, rest, hear, say, have · To what, where: voice · 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 (kite, officers, voice, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kite | det |
| 2 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rest | mark |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 moments | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moments | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moments | amod |
| 9 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 You | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | parataxis |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 have | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 young | cc |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 old | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 homes | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 homes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 old | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the kite | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | the kite not said here | moment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | officers = officer | a voice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | a voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | You | old property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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