Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 76

Everything was done that could be done to save her husband; her father had lost much of his property and standing, and could help but little.

Who acts: Everything, father · What happens: be, do, save, lose, help · To what, where: that, husband, much

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 (Everything, father), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 done	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	cop
3	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 done	obj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 done	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 save	mark
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lost	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lost	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lost	aux
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 done	parataxis
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lost	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 property	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 property	nmod:poss
20	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 much	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 standing	cc
22	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 property	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 help	aux
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	conj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 little	cc
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 done	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything		done property	tree rules
2	do	could · passive	Everything not said here	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
3	save	to-infinitive	Everything not said here	Ying's husband		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
4	lose	past · perfect	Ying's father	much of father's property and standing		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality
5	help	could	Everything not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	be		Everything not said here			tree rules

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 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 76