Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 46
I see, indeed, you are not a child,” and leading him into the house, she told him the sad, sad story from first to last, showed him the priceless keepsakes.
Who acts: I, you, mother, sad sad story · What happens: see, not be, lead, tell, last, show · To what, where: child, house, sad sad story, priceless keepsakes · 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 (I, you, mother, sad sad story), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 see | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 child | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 child | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 child | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leading | cc |
| 14 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 child | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leading | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leading | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 story | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sad | punct |
| 26 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 story | amod |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | obj |
| 28 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 31 last | mark |
| 29 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 last | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 story | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 showed | punct |
| 33 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 showed | iobj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 keepsakes | det |
| 36 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 keepsakes | amod |
| 37 | keepsakes | keepsake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 showed | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | you | a child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead in a quote | gerund | you not said here | child | the house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | mother | the sad sad story | child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 5 | last in a quote | infinitive | the sad sad story not said here | first property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | show in a quote | past | mother not said here | the priceless keepsakes | child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient keepsake=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/18/46/