Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 43

He said to his steward, “This is well; you shall have her for wife, and I will help you and thus reward your many efforts in my behalf.”

Who acts: way, This, steward · What happens: say, be, have, help, reward · To what, where: steward, official, many efforts, behalf · 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 (way, This, steward), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 steward	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steward	nmod:poss
5	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
8	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 well	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 well	cop
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 steward	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 wife	case
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reward	cc
25	thus	thus	ADV	_	26 reward	advmod
26	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	conj
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 efforts	nmod:poss
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 efforts	amod
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reward	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 behalf	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 behalf	nmod:poss
32	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reward	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	way		way's steward			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to steward=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	This				well property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	shall	way's steward = steward	official			for wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	help in a quote	future	way		way's steward = steward			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
5	reward in a quote	infinitive	way not said here	your many efforts		my behalf	thus property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent effort=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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 43