Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 70
“We take with solemn thankfulness Our burden up, nor ask it less; And count it joy that even we May suffer, serve or wait for thee.
Who acts: We · What happens: take, burden up, ask, count, suffer, serve · To what, where: thankfulness, joy
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 thankfulness | case |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thankfulness | amod |
| 6 | thankfulness | thankfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 7 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 burden | nmod:poss |
| 8 | burden | burden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 take | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 burden | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 ask | cc |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | obj |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 ask | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 count | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 count | cc |
| 17 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 count | obj |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 count | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 suffer | obj |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 suffer | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 suffer | nsubj |
| 23 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 suffer | aux |
| 24 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 joy | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 serve | punct |
| 26 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 count | parataxis |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 wait | cc |
| 28 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 count | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 thee | case |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 wait | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present | We | with solemn thankfulness | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | burden up in a quote | participle | We not said here | Our nmod:poss | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | thankfulness | less property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 4 | count in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | thankfulness | joy obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | suffer in a quote | may | we | joy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | serve in a quote | infinitive | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | wait in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | for thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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