Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 2
Her husband raised her and gave her into the command of the serving-woman, with many words of instruction to the latter, who was in great distress at the condition of her mistress’s eye.
Who acts: husband, many words · What happens: raise, give, be, command, word, condition · To what, where: her, command, great distress, serving woman, instruction, eye · 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 (husband, many words), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 command | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 command | det |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 13 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woman | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 serving | punct |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 words | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 instruction | case |
| 21 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 words | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 latter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 latter | det |
| 24 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 distress | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 distress | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 distress | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 distress | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 distress | amod |
| 30 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 words | appos |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 condition | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 condition | det |
| 33 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 distress | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 eye | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 eye | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 mistress | case |
| 38 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 condition | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Her husband | her = she | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Her husband not said here | her = she | the command of the serving woman | with many words of instruction to the latter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | past | many words of instruction to the latter | great distress | at the condition of woman's mistress's eye | tree rules | |||
| 4 | command | the serving woman | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | word | instruction | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | condition | woman's mistress's eye | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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