Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 106

Thus, in comfort and joy, the twelve years passed away; Mr. Hu thanking the gods for giving him such a son, content that old age should come to him and his old wife under these most auspicious circumstances.

Who acts: twelve years, Hu, old age · What happens: pass away, thank, give, come · To what, where: comfort, content, gods, son, Hu

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 (twelve years, Hu, old age), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	11 passed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 comfort	case
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 joy	cc
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comfort	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comfort	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 passed	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 thanking	punct
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Hu	nmod:desc
15	Hu	Hu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 thanking	nsubj
16	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 passed	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gods	det
18	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thanking	obj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 giving	mark
20	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 thanking	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 giving	iobj
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 son	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 son	det
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 giving	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 content	punct
26	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thanking	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 age	amod
29	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 content	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wife	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wife	amod
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 him	conj
38	under	under	ADP	_	42 circumstances	case
39	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 circumstances	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 auspicious	advmod
41	auspicious	auspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 circumstances	amod
42	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 wife	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle	the twelve years			comfort and joy	away, thus property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	thank speech: thank	gerund	Hu Mr.	content	the gods			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
3	give	gerund	Hu Mr. not said here	such son	Hu			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient son=Theme
4	come	should	old age	content not said here	son			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location content=Theme

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 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 106