Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 53
“If you will not return to the home of your ancestors, what do you mean by giving the land to me?
Who acts: you · What happens: not return, mean, give · To what, where: ancestors, land, purpose
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 return | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 return | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 return | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 return | advmod |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ancestors | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 home | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 mean | obj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mean | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ancestors | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 giving | mark |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 mean | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 giving | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return in a quote | future | you | to the home of your ancestors result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | your ancestors | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the land | your purpose = purpose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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