Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 110

“When a boy finds you, producing these, you will know who he is, and wherever you are you must own him.”

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: find, produce, know, be · To what, where: you, these · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, 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	_	13 know	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 finds	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 finds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 producing	punct
8	producing	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 finds	advcl
9	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 producing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	13 know	ccomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 who	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 who	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 own	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 own	cc
19	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	24 own	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 own	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 own	cop
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 own	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 own	aux
24	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 own	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present	a boy	you		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
2	produce in a quote	gerund	a boy not said here	these		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Result
3	know in a quote	future	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	boy			tree rules
5	is in a quote	must · present	you		boy obj; own, wherever property	tree rules

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 110