Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 45
Yes, my daughter-in-law is the only one of the family who has not felt her stick or been reviled by her.
Who acts: daughter, family, mother · What happens: be, not feel, revile · To what, where: only one, stick
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 (daughter, family, 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 12 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 family | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 felt | advmod |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 family | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 stick | nmod:poss |
| 21 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 reviled | cc |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 reviled | aux:pass |
| 24 | reviled | revile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 felt | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reviled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my daughter and law | the only one | of the family | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not feel | present · perfect | the family | mother's stick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | revile | participle · passive | mother | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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