Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 105

Their home was all the heart could desire, and later a little son came to share it with them, and then indeed were the bitter days of the past cast out of heart and mind as far as possible.

Who acts: home, little son, bitter days · What happens: be, come, share, cast out · To what, where: temptation, bitter days, heart

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 (home, little son, bitter days), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 home	nmod:poss
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desire	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desire	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 heart	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desire	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 desire	aux
8	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 came	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 son	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 son	amod
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desire	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 share	mark
17	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 share	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 share	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cast	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cast	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 cast	advmod
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 days	advmod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 days	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 days	det
27	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 days	amod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 cast	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 past	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 past	det
31	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 days	nmod
32	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	35 heart	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 heart	case
35	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 mind	cc
37	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heart	conj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 far	advmod
39	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 cast	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 possible	mark
41	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 far	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	riches's home			all heart nsubj; desire property	tree rules
2	come	past	a little son			late property	tree rules
3	share	to-infinitive	a little son not said here	temptation		with riches = rich	tree rules
4	is a	past		the bitter days		of the past; indeed property	tree rules
5	cast out	past	the bitter days	heart and mind	then	far property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Product

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 2, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 105