Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 34
In all these years we have not had a single quarrel and that cannot be said of any other family.
Who acts: we · What happens: not have, not say · To what, where: single quarrel, that · 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 (we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 years | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 years | det |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 had | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarrel | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 quarrel | amod |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 said | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 said | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | aux:pass |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 quarrel | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 family | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 family | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 family | amod |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · perfect | we | a single quarrel | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient | |||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | can · passive | that | of any other family | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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