Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 65

“If I live, my mother, I will come back for you if I can find my father.”

Who acts: mother · What happens: live, come back, find · To what, where: mother, father

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 live	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	obl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	advcl
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the mother = mother	my mother		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mother=Location
2	come back in a quote	future	the mother = mother		for you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	the mother = mother	my father		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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.

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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 65