Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 40
I will send it in to them and you make ready for a second feast I have prepared in your honour.”
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: send in, make, prepare, honour · To what, where: stone, residents, second feast, honour
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, you, your), 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 | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 send | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | conj |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 feast | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feast | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 feast | amod |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ready | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 prepared | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 prepared | aux |
| 18 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 feast | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 honour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prepared | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in | future | I | stone | residents = resident | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | present | you | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prepare | present · perfect | I | a second feast not said here | your honour | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | |||
| 4 | honour | your | nom honour «state 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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