Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 3

He told her what medicine to get, and how to care for it, and made her promise to stay with her lady as long as she lived.

Who acts: husband, promise, mistress · What happens: tell, get, care, make, stay, live · To what, where: mistress, promise · 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, promise, mistress), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 told	ccomp
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 what	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 care	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 care	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 care	mark
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 care	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 promise	nmod:poss
19	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stay	mark
21	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 lady	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lady	nmod:poss
24	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stay	obl
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 stay	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 lived	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lived	nsubj
29	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 long	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	husband		mistress	what medicine ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get	to-infinitive	husband not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	care not said to happen	to-infinitive				for medicine	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
4	make	past	husband not said here	mistress's promise			tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive	mistress's promise not said here			with mistress's lady; long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lady=Location
6	live	past	mistress				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	promise		mistress				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 3

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 3