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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 61

We have drank the wine and made the compact and that, you know, as he is older than I, gives me a right to meet you and call you ‘sister.’

Who acts: We, you, husband · What happens: drink, make, know, be, give, meet · To what, where: wine, compact, right, me, you · 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 (We, you, husband), 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

nsubjauxdetobjccconjdetobjccoblpunctnsubjparataxispunctmarknsubjcopccompcaseoblpunctconjiobjdetobjmarkaclobjccconjobjnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootWePRONhaveAUXdrankVERBtheDETwineNOUNandCCONJmadeVERBtheDETcompactNOUNandCCONJthatPRON,PUNCTyouPRONknowVERB,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONisAUXolderADJthanADPIPRON,PUNCTgivesVERBmePRONaDETrightNOUNtoPARTmeetVERByouPRONandCCONJcallVERByouPRON‘PRONsisterNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs3 dranknsubj
2havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 drankaux
3drankdrinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 winedet
5winewineNOUNNumber=Sing3 drankobj
6andandCCONJ_7 madecc
7mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 drankconj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 compactdet
9compactcompactNOUNNumber=Sing7 madeobj
10andandCCONJ_11 thatcc
11thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem7 madeobl
12,,PUNCT_14 knowpunct
13youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs14 knownsubj
14knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 drankparataxis
15,,PUNCT_19 olderpunct
16asasSCONJ_19 oldermark
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 oldernsubj
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 oldercop
19olderoldADJDegree=Cmp14 knowccomp
20thanthanADP_21 Icase
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 olderobl
22,,PUNCT_23 givespunct
23givesgiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 olderconj
24meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs23 givesiobj
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 rightdet
26rightrightNOUNNumber=Sing23 givesobj
27totoPART_28 meetmark
28meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf26 rightacl
29youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs28 meetobj
30andandCCONJ_31 callcc
31callcallVERBVerbForm=Inf28 meetconj
32youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs31 callobj
33‘‘PRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 sisternmod:poss
34sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing31 callobj
35..PUNCT_14 knowpunct
36’'PUNCT_3 drankpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drinkpresent · perfectWethe winevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
2makepastWe not said herethe compactthat oblvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compact=Product
3knowpresentyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4ispresenthusbandthan I; old propertytree rules
5givepresenthusband not said herea rightmevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient right=Theme
6meetto-infinitivehusband not said hereyouvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
7callinfinitivehusband not said hereyou‘'s sister objvn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme sister=Result

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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