Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 28
Our babies are sick and cry all the time and we thought it better that we die outside than to make others suffer with us.”
Who acts: babies, we, others · What happens: be, cry, think, die, make, suffer · To what, where: message, others · 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 (babies, we, others), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 babies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sick | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sick | cop |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cry | cc |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sick | conj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cry | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sick | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 die | amod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 die | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 die | nsubj |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 17 die | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 die | advcl |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 suffer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sick | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Our babies | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | Our babies not said here | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | we | message | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | present | we | outside property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | we not said here | others | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | suffer | infinitive | others not said here | with us | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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