Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 93
Our fate is unlucky, the gods and man are against us.”
Who acts: fate, gods, Our · What happens: be, fate
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 (fate, gods, Our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unlucky | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlucky | cop |
| 4 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gods | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gods | det |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 us | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 man | cc |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gods | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 us | cop |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 unlucky | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unlucky | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 unlucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Our fate | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the gods and man | against us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fate | Our | nom fate «event 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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