Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 109
These she divided into two parts, gave one part to her husband, and placed the other in her inner pocket.
Who acts: These · What happens: divide, give, place · To what, where: two parts, one part, husband, other, inner pocket
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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 divided | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | nsubj |
| 3 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 parts | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parts | nummod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 divided | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 part | nummod |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 placed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pocket | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 21 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pocket | amod |
| 22 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl | ||
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | These | two parts | body nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | past | These not said here | one part | body's husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to husband=Recipient | |||
| 3 | place | past | These not said here | the other | body's inner pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme in pocket=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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