Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 30
We promised to help them with their little ones and their look of gratitude was most touching.
Who acts: We, look · What happens: promise, help, touch · To what, where: others
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 (We, look), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 help | mark |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ones | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 touching | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 look | nmod:poss |
| 12 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touching | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gratitude | case |
| 14 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 touching | aux |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 touching | advmod |
| 17 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 promised | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | We | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | others = other | with others's little ones | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary with one=Theme | |||
| 3 | touch | past · progressive | others's look of gratitude | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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