Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 51
The latter part of the call Nien Chi said, “Shall we not seal our friendship by the rite of blood brother?
Who acts: latter part, we · What happens: say, not seal · To what, where: friendship · 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 (latter part, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 call | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 call | det |
| 6 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | Nien | Nien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 8 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nien | flat |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seal | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seal | punct |
| 12 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seal | aux |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seal | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 seal | advmod |
| 15 | seal | seal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seal | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 rite | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rite | det |
| 20 | rite | rite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seal | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brother | compound |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rite | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the latter part of the call | Nien nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not seal in a quote | shall | we | our friendship | by the rite of blood brother | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=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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