Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 15
Much was said to the poor mothers along this line because Chinese women, as a rule, have little thought and less method in training their children.
What happens: say, think, train · To what, where: Much, poor mothers, Chinese women, 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: 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mothers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mothers | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mothers | amod |
| 7 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 line | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 line | det |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mothers | nmod |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 thought | mark |
| 12 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 women | amod |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rule | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 rule | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rule | det |
| 17 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 women | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 women | punct |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thought | aux |
| 20 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 thought | advmod |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 method | cc |
| 23 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 method | amod |
| 24 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thought | conj |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 training | mark |
| 26 | training | train | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 thought | advcl |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 children | nmod:poss |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 training | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | Much | the poor mothers along this line | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to mother=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · perfect · passive | Chinese women and a rule | less method conj; little property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | train | gerund | women's children | vn hire-13.5.3 «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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