Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 83

Little he knew the true-hearted woman, or how she would prove her fidelity, that would hand her name down to all coming wives as the pattern of all that is most truly virtuous.

Who acts: Wang, woman, that · What happens: know, prove, hand down, come, be, name · To what, where: Little, fidelity, name, coming wives

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 (Wang, woman, that), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	obl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct
7	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prove	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 prove	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 prove	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 prove	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 prove	aux
14	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fidelity	nmod:poss
16	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prove	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 hand	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hand	aux
20	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 prove	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hand	obj
23	down	down	ADV	_	20 hand	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 wives	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 wives	det
26	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 wives	amod
27	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hand	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 pattern	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pattern	det
30	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 virtuous	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 pattern	nmod
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 virtuous	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 virtuous	cop
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 virtuous	advmod
36	truly	truly	ADV	_	37 virtuous	advmod
37	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Wang	Little		the true hearted woman obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	prove	would	woman	woman's fidelity			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme
3	hand down	would	that	woman's name	all coming wives	down property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme to wife=Destination
4	come	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	that			as the pattern of all; truly, virtuous property	tree rules
6	name		woman				nom name «communication 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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 83