Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 64
Now, most beautiful and virtuous of all women, leave him to his books and marry me.
What happens: leave, marry · To what, where: husband, books, me
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 virtuous | cc |
| 6 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 women | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 women | det |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 virtuous | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 books | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 books | nmod:poss |
| 15 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leave | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marry | cc |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | infinitive | husband | husband's books | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to book=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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