Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 44
Together these two black-hearted men plotted against the life and happiness of the one little woman, who did not tell her student-husband of the experiences of the day, as she did not like to trouble him when his heart was so sad.
Who acts: one little woman, woman, heart · What happens: plot, not tell, not like, be, experience · To what, where: two hearted men, student husband, trouble, day · 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 (one little woman, woman, heart), 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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 7 men | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 men | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hearted | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 black | punct |
| 6 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | plotted | plot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 men | acl |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plotted | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happiness | cc |
| 13 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 woman | nummod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happiness | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 tell | advmod |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 woman | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 husband | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 student | punct |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 experiences | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 experiences | det |
| 30 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 husband | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 experiences | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 like | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 like | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 like | nsubj |
| 37 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 like | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 like | advmod |
| 39 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 trouble | mark |
| 41 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 like | obj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 trouble | obj |
| 43 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 48 sad | mark |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 sad | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 sad | cop |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 sad | advmod |
| 48 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 like | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plot | participle | this two hearted men not said here | against the life and happiness of the one little woman | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the one little woman | woman's student husband of the experiences of the day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | woman | trouble husband | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | way's heart | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | experience | the day | nom experience «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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