Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 13

He also had told us we must impress upon the women the necessity of keeping the children perfectly quiet.

Who acts: order, we, necessity · What happens: tell, impress, keep · To what, where: us, necessity, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (order, we, necessity), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 impress	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 impress	aux
8	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 women	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 women	det
11	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 impress	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 necessity	det
13	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 impress	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 keeping	mark
15	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 necessity	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keeping	obj
18	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	19 quiet	advmod
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	order		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	impress	must	we	the necessity		upon the women	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus necessity=Experiencer
3	keep	gerund	the necessity not said here	the children			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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, Chinese Heroism, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 13