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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 101

Her husband was greatly moved and, as he tried to stop the flow of blood, said, “You are a daughter of the gods, the most true of all women.”

Who acts: husband, You, blood · What happens: move, try, stop, say, be, flow · To what, where: husband, flow, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, You, blood), 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

nmod:possnsubj:passaux:passadvmodccpunctmarknsubjadvclmarkxcompdetobjcasenmodpunctconjpunctpunctnsubjcopdetccompcasedetnmodpunctdetadvmodconjcasedetoblpunctpunctrootHerPRONhusbandNOUNwasAUXgreatlyADVmovedVERBandCCONJ,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONtriedVERBtoPARTstopVERBtheDETflowNOUNofADPbloodNOUN,PUNCTsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTYouPRONareAUXaDETdaughterNOUNofADPtheDETgodsNOUN,PUNCTtheDETmostADVtrueADJofADPallDETwomenNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 husbandnmod:poss
2husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing5 movednsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 movedaux:pass
4greatlygreatlyADV_5 movedadvmod
5movedmoveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6andandCCONJ_18 saidcc
7,,PUNCT_6 andpunct
8asasSCONJ_10 triedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 triednsubj
10triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 saidadvcl
11totoPART_12 stopmark
12stopstopVERBVerbForm=Inf10 triedxcomp
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 flowdet
14flowflowNOUNNumber=Sing12 stopobj
15ofofADP_16 bloodcase
16bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing14 flownmod
17,,PUNCT_10 triedpunct
18saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 movedconj
19,,PUNCT_24 daughterpunct
20“"PUNCT_24 daughterpunct
21YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs24 daughternsubj
22arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 daughtercop
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 daughterdet
24daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing18 saidccomp
25ofofADP_27 godscase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 godsdet
27godsgodNOUNNumber=Plur24 daughternmod
28,,PUNCT_31 truepunct
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 truedet
30mostmostADVDegree=Sup31 trueadvmod
31truetrueADJDegree=Pos24 daughterconj
32ofofADP_34 womencase
33allallDETPronType=Tot34 womendet
34womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur31 trueobl
35..PUNCT_5 movedpunct
36”"PUNCT_5 movedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1movepast · passiveuse's husbandgreatly propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result
2trypasthusbandvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3stop not said to happento-infinitivehusband not said herethe flow of bloodvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flow=Eventuality
4say speech: assertpastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5is a in a quotepresentYoua daughterof the godstree rules
6be in a quoteYou not said hereof all womentree rules
7flowbloodnom flow «event intransitive»: of=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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