Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 74

When you were ill did I not promise the gods that if you recovered I would go to the highest temple on the mountains, crawling all the way on hands and knees, and when you were restored to health did I not fulfil my vow?

Who acts: you, I, gods, my · What happens: be, not promise, recover, go, crawl, restore · To what, where: gods, highest temple, way, hands, you, health · 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 (you, I, gods, my), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 ill	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 promise	advcl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 promise	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 promise	advmod
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gods	det
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 fulfil	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 recovered	obj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 recovered	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 recovered	nsubj
14	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gods	acl:relcl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 recovered	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 temple	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 temple	det
20	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 temple	amod
21	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 mountains	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mountains	det
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 temple	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crawling	punct
26	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 go	advcl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 way	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crawling	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 hands	case
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 way	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 knees	cc
33	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hands	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 restored	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 restored	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 restored	advmod
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 restored	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 restored	aux:pass
39	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 recovered	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 health	case
41	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 restored	obl
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 fulfil	aux
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 fulfil	nsubj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 fulfil	advmod
45	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	ccomp
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 vow	nmod:poss
47	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fulfil	obj
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	you				ill property	tree rules
2	not promise speech: promise	past · do-support	I					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	recover a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the gods				tree rules
4	go	would	I			the highest temple on the mountains		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_Location
5	crawl	gerund	I not said here	all way		hands and knees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme
6	restore	past · passive		you	health			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to health=Recipient
7	not fulfil	past · do-support	the gods	my vow			I nsubj	tree rules
8	vow		my					nom vow «communication 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 74

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 74