Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 43
Those whose gifts lie in loving and befriending may sooner rest from their labours, for their works do follow them, and love and friendship are deathless.
Who acts: gifts, works, love, deeds · What happens: lie, befriend, follow, be, work · To what, where: rest, loving, deeds
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 (gifts, works, love, deeds), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 gifts | det |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 loving | case |
| 6 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lie | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 befriending | cc |
| 8 | befriending | befriend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 loving | conj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sooner | aux |
| 10 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 rest | advmod |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 labours | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 labours | nmod:poss |
| 14 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 follow | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 works | nmod:poss |
| 18 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 follow | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 follow | aux |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lie | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deathless | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deathless | cc |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 deathless | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 friendship | cc |
| 26 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | conj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 deathless | cop |
| 28 | deathless | deathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lie | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | that gifts | rest | loving | from deeds's labours | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loving=Location | ||
| 2 | befriend | gerund | that gifts not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | present · do-support | deeds's works | deeds = deed | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | love and friendship | deathless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work | deeds = deed | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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