Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 20

I did not dare let him see me cry, but in the dead of night I poured it all out to God and was comforted.”

Who acts: I, husband, me · What happens: not dare, not let, see, cry, pour, comfort · To what, where: husband, me, fire, dead

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, husband, me), 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	4 dare	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dare	advmod
4	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dare	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poured	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 poured	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 dead	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dead	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 poured	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poured	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 poured	nsubj
18	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 poured	obj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 out	advmod
21	out	out	ADV	_	18 poured	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 God	case
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 out	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 comforted	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 comforted	aux:pass
26	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 poured	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dare	past · do-support	I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not let	infinitive	I not said here	husband				tree rules
3	see	infinitive	husband not said here	me				tree rules
4	cry speech: express	infinitive	me not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pour	past	I	fire	the dead	night	out property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	comfort	past · passive	I not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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, Literary Glory, sentence 20

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 20