Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 65

I cannot hope to enter into your spirit life, I who am only a woman, but surely the effort I make will at least be seen by the god.

Who acts: I, god · What happens: not hope, enter, be, make, see · To what, where: spirit life, woman, effort, least · 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 (I, god), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hope	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hope	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hope	advmod
4	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 enter	mark
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hope	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 life	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
9	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 life	compound
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enter	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 woman	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 woman	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 woman	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 woman	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
20	surely	surely	ADV	_	22 effort	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 effort	det
22	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 make	nsubj
24	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 woman	conj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 least	case
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 seen	obl
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 seen	aux:pass
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hope	ccomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 god	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 god	det
32	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hope	can	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		your spirit life		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	I	a woman		who nsubj	tree rules
4	make	present	I	the effort			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	future · passive	the god	a woman	least		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 65