Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 34

I promise, on my life, to send it back to you if indeed he does not make over the promised cities.”

Who acts: I, Chou · What happens: promise, send back, not make · To what, where: life, you, promised cities

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Chou), 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	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 send	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 send	mark
9	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 promise	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 send	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 send	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 send	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 make	mark
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 make	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 make	advmod
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 send	advcl
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 cities	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cities	det
22	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cities	amod
23	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I			my life		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	send back	to-infinitive		life	you			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Destination
3	not make a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	Chou			the promised cities	indeed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	promise speech: promise	participle						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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, The Jade Treasure, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 34