Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 25
With my own hands I plastered the inside walls and cleaned up the court, but,” said the dear girl as she took my hand, “it is such a joy now and God has been good to me.”
Who acts: I, girl, house, God · What happens: plaster, clean up, say, take, be · To what, where: inside walls, court, dear girl, hand, joy, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, girl, house, God), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 hands | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hands | amod |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plastered | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 plastered | nsubj |
| 6 | plastered | plaster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 8 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | compound |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plastered | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cleaned | cc |
| 11 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plastered | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 cleaned | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 court | det |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cleaned | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 but | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 but | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plastered | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 took | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 joy | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 joy | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 joy | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 joy | cop |
| 32 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 joy | det:predet |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 joy | det |
| 34 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 took | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 good | cc |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 good | nsubj |
| 38 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 good | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 good | cop |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 took | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 me | case |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 good | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plastered | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 plastered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plaster | past | I | the inside walls | with my own hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Destination with hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | clean up | past | I not said here | the court | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I not said here | the dear girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | past | girl | my hand | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | present | house | such joy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present · perfect | God | me | good property | tree rules |
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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