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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 86

She came forward and, kneeling before him, she said, “We are about to separate, possibly forever; what commands have you for me?

Who acts: woman, We, commands · What happens: come forward, kneel, say, be, separate, have · 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 (woman, We, commands), 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

nsubjadvmodccpunctconjcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxispunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodmarkccomppunctadvmodadvmodpunctobjnsubjconjnsubjcaseoblpunctrootShePRONcameVERBforwardADVandCCONJ,PUNCTkneelingVERBbeforeADPhimPRON,PUNCTshePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTWePRONareAUXaboutADVtoPARTseparateVERB,PUNCTpossiblyADVforeverADV;PUNCTwhatPRONcommandsNOUNhaveVERByouPRONforADPmePRON?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 camensubj
2camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3forwardforwardADV_2 cameadvmod
4andandCCONJ_6 kneelingcc
5,,PUNCT_6 kneelingpunct
6kneelingkneelVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 cameconj
7beforebeforeADP_8 himcase
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 kneelingobl
9,,PUNCT_11 saidpunct
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saidnsubj
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 cameparataxis
12,,PUNCT_18 separatepunct
13“"PUNCT_16 aboutpunct
14WewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs16 aboutnsubj
15arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 aboutcop
16aboutaboutADV_18 separateadvmod
17totoPART_18 separatemark
18separateseparateVERBVerbForm=Inf11 saidccomp
19,,PUNCT_21 foreverpunct
20possiblypossiblyADV_21 foreveradvmod
21foreverforeverADV_18 separateadvmod
22;;PUNCT_25 havepunct
23whatwhatPRONPronType=Int25 haveobj
24commandscommandNOUNNumber=Plur25 havensubj
25havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 separateconj
26youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs25 havensubj
27forforADP_28 mecase
28meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 haveobl
29??PUNCT_2 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come forwardpastwomanforward propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2kneelgerundwoman not said herebefore Wangvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3say speech: askpastwomanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4is in a quotepresentWeabout propertytree rules
5separate in a quoteto-infinitiveforever propertyvn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6have in a quotepresentcommandsfor woman; what obj; you nsubjvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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