Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 33

I looked with great dread upon her coming to us; but I want to tell you, she is the best daughter-in-law in the place.

Who acts: I, mother · What happens: look, come, want, tell, be · To what, where: us, you, best law · 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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 dread	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dread	amod
5	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 coming	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 coming	nmod:poss
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 coming	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 want	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 want	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 law	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 law	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 law	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 law	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 law	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 law	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 law	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 law	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 in	punct
27	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 law	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	I			with great dread	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	I not said here	us		mother nmod:poss	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location
3	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	present	mother		the best law	in the place; daughter nsubj	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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 33