Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 103
If a little daughter comes, name her also and your wishes.”
Who acts: little daughter, you, your · What happens: come, name, wish · To what, where: daughter
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 (little daughter, you, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 7 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 name | obj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 name | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wishes | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 name | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | a little daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | name | imperative | you not said here | daughter | your wishes conj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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