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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 19

Taking him by the hand she raised him up, and said, with all the mother-love shining in her eyes, “My son, you are too young yet to know all.

Who acts: mother, mother love, you · What happens: take, raise up, say, shine, be, know · To what, where: heart, son, eyes, all · 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 (mother, mother love, 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

csubjobjcasedetoblnsubjobjcompound:prtpunctccparataxispunctcasedet:predetdetcompoundpunctccompaclcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnmod:possoblpunctnsubjcopadvmodadvcladvmodmarkadvclobjpunctrootTakingVERBhimPRONbyADPtheDEThandNOUNshePRONraisedVERBhimPRONupADP,PUNCTandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCTwithADPallDETtheDETmotherNOUN-PUNCTloveNOUNshiningVERBinADPherPRONeyesNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTMyPRONsonNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONareAUXtooADVyoungADJyetADVtoPARTknowVERBallDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TakingtakeVERBVerbForm=Ger7 raisedcsubj
2himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs1 Takingobj
3bybyADP_5 handcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 handdet
5handhandNOUNNumber=Sing1 Takingobl
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 raisednsubj
7raisedraiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 raisedobj
9upupADP_7 raisedcompound:prt
10,,PUNCT_12 saidpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 saidcc
12saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 raisedparataxis
13,,PUNCT_19 lovepunct
14withwithADP_19 lovecase
15allallDETPronType=Tot19 lovedet:predet
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 lovedet
17mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing19 lovecompound
18--PUNCT_17 motherpunct
19loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing12 saidccomp
20shiningshineVERBVerbForm=Ger19 loveacl
21ininADP_23 eyescase
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 eyesnmod:poss
23eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur20 shiningobl
24,,PUNCT_27 sonpunct
25“"PUNCT_27 sonpunct
26MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 sonnmod:poss
27sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing20 shiningobl
28,,PUNCT_32 youngpunct
29youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs32 youngnsubj
30arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 youngcop
31tootooADV_32 youngadvmod
32youngyoungADJDegree=Pos12 saidadvcl
33yetyetADV_32 youngadvmod
34totoPART_35 knowmark
35knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf32 youngadvcl
36allallDETPronType=Tot35 knowobj
37..PUNCT_7 raisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takegerundheartby the handvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2raise uppastmotherheartvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3say speech: assertpastall mother love ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4shinegerundall mother love not said hereMy sonmother's eyesvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location
5is in a quotepresentyouyetyoung propertytree rules
6know in a quoteto-infinitiveyou not said hereallvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=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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