Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 69

Can you not say with her, “My reward has come to me, God has been very good to me”?

Who acts: you, reward, God, My · What happens: not say, come, be, reward · To what, where: me · 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 (you, reward, God, My), 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
9	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 reward	nmod:poss
10	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 say	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 good	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 good	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 good	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 good	obl
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	you		with School	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present · perfect	My reward	me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present · perfect	God	me	good property	tree rules
4	reward in a quote		My			nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 69