Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 27

“Come on; we will follow her and see who she is and where she is going.”

Who acts: you, we, woman · What happens: come on, follow, see, be, go · To what, where: 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: who acts (you, we, woman), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 follow	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 follow	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 follow	aux
7	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 follow	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 follow	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 see	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 who	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 who	cop
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 going	cc
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 going	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 who	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come on in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow in a quote	future	we	woman	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	see in a quote	infinitive	we not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	woman		tree rules
5	go in a quote	present · progressive	woman		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 27