Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 136

The sage added further, “You will have also to serve us, dig roots, and prepare our food, you who at home have always been served.

Who acts: sage, You · What happens: add, have, serve, dig, prepare · To what, where: us, roots, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sage, 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 sage	det
2	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 added	nsubj
3	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	further	further	ADV	_	3 added	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 added	parataxis
10	also	also	ADV	_	12 serve	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 serve	mark
12	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 serve	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dig	punct
15	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	conj
16	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dig	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prepare	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 prepare	cc
19	prepare	prepare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 added	parataxis
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 food	nmod:poss
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prepare	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 who	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 who	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 served	nsubj:pass
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 who	nmod
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 served	aux
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 served	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 served	aux:pass
30	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 added	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	the sage		further property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	future	You			tree rules
3	serve in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	us		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute
4	dig in a quote	infinitive	You not said here	roots		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme
5	prepare in a quote	infinitive		our food		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
6	serve in a quote	present · perfect · passive			who you at home nsubj:pass; always property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 136