Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 61

Put all my old clothes and shoes into it, and when you are lonely and miss me and must weep, you go to the coffin and say, ‘My son is dead.

Who acts: you, son · What happens: put, be, miss, weep, go, say · To what, where: old clothes, coffin, me · 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 (you, son), 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clothes	det:predet
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clothes	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clothes	amod
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Put	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shoes	cc
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clothes	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lonely	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lonely	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 lonely	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 lonely	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lonely	cop
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Put	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 miss	cc
17	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lonely	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 miss	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weep	cc
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 weep	aux
21	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lonely	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 coffin	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 coffin	det
27	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dead	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 dead	punct
32	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 son	nmod:poss
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dead	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 say	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	my old clothes and shoes	coffin		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothes=Goal
2	is	present	you			lonely property	tree rules
3	miss	infinitive	you not said here	me			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	weep	must	you not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	present	you		the coffin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coffin=Initial_Location
6	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	My son			dead property	tree rules

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 61