Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 10
No word had come from her husband and no word of their life-story did the mother tell her son.
Who acts: word, mother · What happens: come, tell · To what, where: word, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, mother), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 word | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 life | punct |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obl |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 word | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | no word | from mother's husband and no word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from husband=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the mother | no word not said here | mother's son | of words's life story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
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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