Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 17

Little Jade and her family knew it would do no good to appeal to the magistrate, as such raids were frequent, and nothing was done to prevent or punish; and all the family but the little daughter made up their minds that nothing could be done, and they must await whatever the gods had in store for them.

Who acts: Little Jade, family, such raids, little daughter, minds, raids · What happens: know, do, appeal, be, prevent, punish · To what, where: good, nothing, minds, whatever, store · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Jade, family, such raids, little daughter), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jade	amod
2	Jade	Jade	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 family	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 family	nmod:poss
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jade	conj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 knew	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 good	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 appeal	mark
13	appeal	appeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 good	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 magistrate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 magistrate	det
16	magistrate	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appeal	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frequent	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 frequent	mark
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 raids	amod
20	raids	raid	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 frequent	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 frequent	cop
22	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 appeal	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 done	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 done	cc
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 done	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux:pass
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 frequent	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 prevent	mark
29	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 done	advcl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 punish	cc
31	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 prevent	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 family	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 family	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 family	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 family	det
36	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	parataxis
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 daughter	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 daughter	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 daughter	amod
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 family	conj
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 daughter	acl
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 made	compound:prt
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 minds	nmod:poss
44	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 made	obj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 done	mark
46	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	49 done	nsubj:pass
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 done	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 done	aux:pass
49	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 minds	acl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 await	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 await	cc
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 await	nsubj
53	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 await	aux
54	await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 done	advcl
55	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 had	obj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 gods	det
57	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 await	ccomp
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 store	case
60	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 had	obl
61	for	for	ADP	_	62 them	case
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 store	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Little Jade and Jade's family			all family but the little daughter parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	would	family	no good			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	appeal	to-infinitive	family not said here			to the magistrate	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to magistrate=Experiencer
4	is	past	such raids			frequent property	tree rules
5	do	past · passive		nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	prevent	to-infinitive					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
7	punish	infinitive					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	make up	participle	the little daughter not said here	raids's minds			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
9	do	could · passive	raids's minds not said here	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
10	await	must	raids = raid				tree rules
11	have	past	the gods	whatever	store for raids		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient
12	mind		raids = raid				nom mind «cognition 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, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 17

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 17