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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 107

I may not follow you into exile, I shall go to my old home, but if the child is a son, when he is old enough I shall send him to you.”

Who acts: I, child, son · What happens: not follow, go, be, send · To what, where: you, exile, old home, son, child

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 (I, child, son), 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

nsubjauxadvmodobjcaseoblpunctnsubjauxconjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccmarkdetnsubjcopdetnsubjpunctmarknsubjcopapposadvmodnsubjauxconjobjcaseoblpunctpunctrootIPRONmayAUXnotPARTfollowVERByouPRONintoADPexileNOUN,PUNCTIPRONshallAUXgoVERBtoADPmyPRONoldADJhomeNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJifSCONJtheDETchildNOUNisAUXaDETsonNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJhePRONisAUXoldADJenoughADVIPRONshallAUXsendVERBhimPRONtoADPyouPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 follownsubj
2maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin4 followaux
3notnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 followadvmod
4followfollowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs4 followobj
6intointoADP_7 exilecase
7exileexileNOUNNumber=Sing4 followobl
8,,PUNCT_11 gopunct
9IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 gonsubj
10shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin11 goaux
11gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf4 followconj
12totoADP_15 homecase
13mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 homenmod:poss
14oldoldADJDegree=Pos15 homeamod
15homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing11 goobl
16,,PUNCT_23 sonpunct
17butbutCCONJ_23 soncc
18ififSCONJ_23 sonmark
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 childdet
20childchildNOUNNumber=Sing23 sonnsubj
21isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 soncop
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 sondet
23sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing32 sendnsubj
24,,PUNCT_28 oldpunct
25whenwhenSCONJ_28 oldmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 oldnsubj
27isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 oldcop
28oldoldADJDegree=Pos23 sonappos
29enoughenoughADV_28 oldadvmod
30IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 sendnsubj
31shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin32 sendaux
32sendsendVERBVerbForm=Inf4 followconj
33himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 sendobj
34totoADP_35 youcase
35youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs32 sendobl
36..PUNCT_32 sendpunct
37”"PUNCT_32 sendpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not followmayIyouexilevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme into exile=Trajectory
2goshallImy old homevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
3is a a condition, not said to happenpresentthe childa sontree rules
4ispresentsonenough, old propertytree rules
5sendshalla sonchildyouI nsubjvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Destination

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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