Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 114

If any of you know him or where I can find him, will you please tell me.”

Who acts: any, I, you · What happens: know, find, tell · To what, where: boy, me · 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 (any, I, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 know	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 any	nmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 find	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
16	please	please	INTJ	_	17 tell	discourse
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	present	any of you	boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	find	can	I	boy		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	future	you		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 114