Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 32

The mother said, “When I heard the girl my son was engaged to was a Christian and in school I was very angry and wanted to break off the engagement.

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, hear, engage, be, want, break off · To what, where: girl, son, school, engagement · 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 (mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
6	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 engaged	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 engaged	aux:pass
14	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 heard	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	18 Christian	mark
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Christian	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Christian	det
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 engaged	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 angry	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 school	case
21	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 angry	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 angry	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 angry	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 angry	advmod
25	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Christian	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wanted	cc
27	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 engaged	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 break	mark
29	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wanted	xcomp
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 break	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 engagement	det
32	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 break	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hear in a quote	past	the mother = mother	the girl			tree rules
3	engage in a quote	past · passive		my son			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is in a quote	past				christian property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	past	the mother = mother		school	angry property	tree rules
6	want in a quote	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	break off not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		the engagement			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer engagement=Patient

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 32

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 32