Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 37

I thought she would be above farm work, and all these years she has worked so hard and with never one word of complaint.

Who acts: I, mother · What happens: think, be, work, word · To what, where: farm work, complaint · 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 work	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 work	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 work	cop
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	compound
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 worked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 worked	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 years	det:predet
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 years	det
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 worked	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 worked	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 worked	aux
16	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 work	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 worked	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hard	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 word	case
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 one	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 word	nummod
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 worked	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 complaint	case
25	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 word	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	mother		farm work			tree rules
3	work	present · perfect	mother			year	with one word of complaint; hard property	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent
4	word			complaint				nom word «communication transitive»: of=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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 37