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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 follow | advmod |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 exile | case |
| 7 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 follow | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 home | amod |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 son | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 son | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 send | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 old | punct |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 old | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 old | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 old | cop |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 son | appos |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 old | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 send | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 send | aux |
| 32 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 follow | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 send | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 send | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 send | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow | may | I | you | exile | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme into exile=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go | shall | I | my old home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | the child | a son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | son | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | shall | a son | child | you | I nsubj | vn 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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