Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 21
We have a great and powerful enemy and it is only by this quiet living that you and I have lived in peace.
Who acts: We, enemy, quiet living · What happens: have, be, live · To what, where: great enemy, peace
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 (We, enemy, quiet living), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 enemy | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 enemy | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 powerful | cc |
| 6 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | conj |
| 7 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 living | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 living | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 living | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 living | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 living | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 living | det |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 living | amod |
| 15 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enemy | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 I | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 you | conj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lived | aux |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 living | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 peace | case |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | a great enemy and this quiet living | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | enemy | by this quiet living | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present · perfect | this quiet living | peace | you nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
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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