Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 21

One who watched her taking a little dead goldfish out of the water said, “Don’t keep goldfish any more, it hurts you so when they die.”

Who acts: One, Miss, goldfish, flowers · What happens: watch, take, say, not keep, hurt, die · To what, where: Miss, dead goldfish, goldfish, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Miss, goldfish, flowers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 watched	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 watched	nsubj
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watched	obj
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 watched	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 goldfish	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dead	amod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goldfish	amod
9	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	14 said	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Do	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Do	punct
17	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
18	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taking	advcl
20	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	obj
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 keep	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hurts	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hurts	nsubj
25	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watched	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 hurts	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 die	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 die	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 die	nsubj
30	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hurts	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 hurts	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 hurts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	watch	past	One	Miss		who nsubj	tree rules
2	take	gerund	Miss not said here		a dead goldfish		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goldfish=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past				of the water	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not keep in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Miss not said here	goldfish			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Theme
5	hurt in a quote	present	goldfish	you			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient
6	die in a quote	present	flowers = flower				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 21