🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 116

I do not desire it, and I have come to you, my Teachers, for instruction as to the way of attaining purification and the true life.”

Who acts: I, way · What happens: not desire, come, attain · To what, where: luxury, you, purification

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/116/