Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 68

Yü Yüch Ying said to him, “How did you dare enter friendship’s bonds with such as he?

Who acts: Yü, husband, friendship · What happens: say, enter, bond · To what, where: husband, bonds · 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 (Yü, husband, friendship), 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	Yü	Yü	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yü	flat
3	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yü	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enter	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 enter	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 enter	advmod
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 enter	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 enter	nsubj
12	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 enter	aux
13	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
14	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bonds	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 friendship	case
16	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 enter	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 he	case
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 he	case
19	as	as	ADP	_	18 such	fixed
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 enter	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Yü		husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	enter in a quote	dare · past · do-support	husband	friendship's bonds		with husband	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bond=Destination
3	bond in a quote		friendship				nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 68