Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 104
“I have no wishes or commands, you are able to instruct and have wisdom for all.
Who acts: use, you · What happens: have, be, instruct · To what, where: wishes, wisdom
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 (use, you), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | parataxis |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wishes | det |
| 5 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 commands | cc |
| 7 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wishes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 instruct | mark |
| 13 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 instruct | conj |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 wisdom | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | use | no wishes or commands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | wisdom | for all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Patient |
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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