Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 20

Some day when you are a little older I will tell you the history of our sad lives.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: history, you · 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 (you, I), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 older	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 older	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 older	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 older	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 older	obl
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 older	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 history	det
14	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 lives	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lives	nmod:poss
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lives	amod
18	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 history	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 older	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you				day	a little obl; old property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future	I	the history of our sad lives	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient history=Topic

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 20