Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 35
My youngest children love her and mind her better than they do me.
Who acts: youngest children, children · What happens: love, mind, do · To what, where: mother, me
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 (youngest children, children), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 children | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mind | cc |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 love | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 better | nmod:poss |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 mind | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | My youngest children | mother | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mind | infinitive | My youngest children not said here | good property | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do | present | children = child | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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