Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 89
“Our affairs have reached this state: we can do nothing and be nothing to each other.
Who acts: we · What happens: reach, do, be · To what, where: affairs, nothing
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 (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 state | det |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nothing | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | cop |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 do | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 each | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Our affairs | this state obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary state=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | we | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | nothing | to each | 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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