Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 23

(The story of her life, set in song and always sung in tears, praises her in words seldom given to any woman.)

What happens: set, sing, praise, give · To what, where: story, song, tears, Ying, words, woman

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: 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 story	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 story	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 song	case
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sung	cc
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 sung	advmod
13	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 set	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 tears	case
15	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 praises	punct
17	praises	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 story	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 praises	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 words	case
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 praises	obl
21	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	22 given	advmod
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 praises	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 woman	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 woman	det
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	participle	the story of Ying's life not said here		song		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in song=Destination
2	sing speech: express	participle			tears	always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tear=Location
3	praise	present	Ying		words		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	give	participle		any woman		seldom property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 23