Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 50

Could she let him go, out into the great unknown world, her little boy, her baby; how could she?

Who acts: mother, child · What happens: let, go · To what, where: child, great unknown world

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 (mother, child), 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 world	punct
7	out	out	ADV	_	12 world	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
11	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boy	punct
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 boy	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 world	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 baby	punct
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 baby	nmod:poss
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 could	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 could	advmod
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	could	mother	child					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	child not said here			the great unknown world and mother's little boy and mother's baby			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 50