Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 79
The tears streamed down her cheeks as she added, “Have compassion upon me, your wife, and let me go with you.”
Who acts: tears, woman · What happens: stream down, add, have, let, go · To what, where: cheeks, compassion, woman · 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 (tears, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tears | det |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 streamed | nsubj |
| 3 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 streamed | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 streamed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 added | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 added | nsubj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 streamed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Have | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Have | punct |
| 12 | Have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 added | ccomp |
| 13 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Have | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Have | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wife | punct |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 me | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Have | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 streamed | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 streamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream down | participle | the tears | woman's cheeks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | compassion | upon woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | woman not said here | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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