Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 39
She had to go early, walk there and back, and carry our portion.
Who acts: mother · What happens: have, go, walk, carry · To what, where: portion
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walk | punct |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 walk | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 back | cc |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 there | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 portion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | mother not said here | early property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | mother not said here | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | mother not said here | our portion | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme |
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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