Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 45
All is weakness and evil under the sun. I will no longer mingle with men, but will go apart and seek to prepare myself for a higher existence among those who by contemplation and renunciation have become fit for companionship with the gods.”
Who acts: weakness · What happens: be, mingle, go, seek, prepare, become · To what, where: weakness, sun., myself
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 (weakness), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 weakness | det |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 weakness | cop |
| 3 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mingle | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 evil | cc |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weakness | conj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 sun. | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun. | det |
| 8 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weakness | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mingle | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 mingle | aux |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 mingle | advmod |
| 13 | mingle | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mingle | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 mingle | parataxis |
| 20 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seek | cc |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 prepare | mark |
| 24 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seek | xcomp |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 prepare | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 existence | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 existence | det |
| 28 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 existence | amod |
| 29 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prepare | obl |
| 30 | among | among | ADP | _ | 31 those | case |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 prepare | obl |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 become | nsubj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 contemplation | case |
| 34 | contemplation | contemplation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 who | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 renunciation | cc |
| 36 | renunciation | renunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 contemplation | conj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 become | aux |
| 38 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 those | acl:relcl |
| 39 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 become | xcomp |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 companionship | case |
| 41 | companionship | companionship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fit | obl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 gods | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 gods | det |
| 44 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 prepare | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mingle | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mingle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all weakness and evil | the sun. | evil conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mingle | future | all weakness and evil | with men; I nsubj; long property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with man=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | future | apart property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | myself | for a higher existence; among those; with the gods | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent myself=Patient with god=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | become | present · perfect | who by contemplation and renunciation nsubj; fit property | 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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