Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 137
Can you eat [1] all this bitterness, even to becoming a servant?”
Who acts: you · What happens: eat, become · To what, where: bitterness, servant
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 (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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 1 | punct |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 eat | flat |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 1 | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 bitterness | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bitterness | det |
| 9 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 becoming | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 becoming | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 13 becoming | mark |
| 13 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 eat | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 servant | det |
| 15 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 becoming | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | you | all bitterness | 1 flat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | you not said here | a servant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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