Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 76

Did I not take flesh from my own arm to make a broth which cured our mother when she was ill?

Who acts: I, broth, denial · What happens: not take, make, cure, be · To what, where: flesh, own arm, broth, mother

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, broth, denial), 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 arm	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arm	amod
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 broth	det
13	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cured	nsubj
15	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broth	acl:relcl
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cured	obj
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 ill	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ill	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	cop
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	I	flesh	my own arm		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme from arm=Initial_Location
2	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	a broth			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset broth=Product
3	cure	past	a broth	our mother			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer mother=Source
4	is	past	denial			ill property	tree rules

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 76