Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 52

I said to the women, “She is our girl student and we love her.”

Who acts: I, woman, we · What happens: say, be, love · To what, where: women, girl student, woman · 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, woman, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 women	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 women	det
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 student	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 student	punct
8	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 student	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 student	cop
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 student	nmod:poss
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 student	compound
12	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 women	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 love	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 love	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		the women		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	woman	our girl student		our nmod:poss	tree rules
3	love in a quote	present	we	woman			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 52