Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 64
The mother replied, “You are wise, my dear, beyond your years; I will do as you say, and weep for you there.”
Who acts: mother, You · What happens: reply, be, do, say, weep · 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 (mother, You), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wise | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wise | cop |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dear | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wise | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 years | punct |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 years | nmod:poss |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 replied | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 say | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 weep | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 weep | cc |
| 25 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 say | ccomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 weep | obl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 weep | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the mother | year | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | You | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | You not said here | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | the mother = mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | weep in a quote | infinitive | there | for you | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/18/64/