Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 55
You may be proud of her, she is the best daughter-in-law in the place.”
Who acts: You, woman · What happens: be · To what, where: best law
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 (You, woman), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 proud | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proud | cop |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proud | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 law | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 law | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 law | det |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 law | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 law | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proud | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 law | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | You | of woman; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | woman | the best law | in the place; daughter nsubj | tree rules |
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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