Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 118

“My mother gave them to me, the other half of each my father has and he was to know me by these.”

Who acts: mother, other half, half · What happens: give, have, know · To what, where: men, Ting

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 (mother, other half, half), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 half	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 half	amod
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 has	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 father	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 father	det
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 half	nmod
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 has	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 these	case
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 know	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	My mother		men = man	to Ting	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient
2	have in a quote	present	the other half of my father				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know in a quote	past	half	Ting		by these	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 118