Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 18
“Not so,” thought little Jade; “I will either save my father or die with him.”
Who acts: little Jade · What happens: think, save, die · To what, where: father · 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), 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 | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Jade | amod |
| 8 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 will | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | aux |
| 13 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 14 save | cc:preconj |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 save | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 die | cc |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 save | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 die | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | little Jade | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save in a quote | future | my father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | infinitive | with Lee | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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