Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 65
You shall have, by promise of my master, the great Yen Sung, the finest of the land, in robes of silk and satin, servants by tens, jewels fit for an empress, and a most royal home.”
Who acts: You, jewels · What happens: have, fit, promise · To what, where: promise, tens, master
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 (You, jewels), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 promise | case |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sung | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sung | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sung | amod |
| 13 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sung | compound |
| 14 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 master | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 finest | det |
| 17 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 promise | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finest | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 robes | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 robes | case |
| 23 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 silk | case |
| 25 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 robes | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 satin | cc |
| 27 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 silk | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 servants | punct |
| 29 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 robes | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 tens | case |
| 31 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fit | punct |
| 33 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fit | nsubj |
| 34 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 tens | acl:relcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 empress | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 empress | det |
| 37 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fit | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 home | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 home | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 home | det |
| 41 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 42 royal | advmod |
| 42 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 home | amod |
| 43 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | promise of my master and the great Yen Sung the finest of the land | by tens; a royal home obl; robes of silk and satin and servants obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fit | present | jewels | tens not said here | for a empress | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient | |||
| 3 | promise | my master and the great Yen Sung | nom promise «communication 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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