Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 51

And yet her promise to his father; her vow that she had lived over every day of his precious little life.

Who acts: mother · What happens: live over, promise, vow · To what, where: vow, promise

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 promise	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 promise	advmod
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 vow	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 vow	nmod:poss
10	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lived	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lived	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lived	aux
14	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 vow	acl:relcl
15	over	over	ADV	_	14 lived	advmod
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl:unmarked
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
20	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live over	past · perfect	mother	mother's vow not said here	day	over property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme vow=Location
3	promise		mother			to child's father	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
4	vow		mother				nom vow «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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 51