Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 63
We will go together to the country and there you will forget your disappointment, or I too will go with you to the purple hills by Buddha’s help.
Who acts: We, you, I, your, Buddha · What happens: go together, forget, go, disappoint, help · To what, where: country, disappointment, purple hills
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 (We, you, I, your), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forget | cc |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 forget | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 forget | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 forget | aux |
| 12 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forget | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hills | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hills | det |
| 25 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hills | amod |
| 26 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 help | case |
| 28 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 help | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Buddha | case |
| 30 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | future | We | the country | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | forget | future | you | your disappointment | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | future | I | the purple hills | with you; by Buddha's help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | disappoint | your | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | help | Buddha | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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