Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 74
Mr. Kao was greatly depressed by his many sorrows, and when he parted from his wife, he felt he should never see her again, neither did he even then comprehend what a true and remarkable wife was his.
Who acts: many sorrows, Kao · What happens: depress, part, feel, not see, do, comprehend · To what, where: Kao, Mr., boy
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 (many sorrows, Kao), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kao | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 depressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 depressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 depressed | advmod |
| 5 | depressed | depress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sorrows | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sorrows | amod |
| 9 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 depressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 parted | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 parted | nsubj |
| 14 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 felt | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 parted | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 depressed | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 see | advmod |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 felt | ccomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 see | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 did | punct |
| 28 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 did | cc:preconj |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 comprehend | advcl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 comprehend | nsubj |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 comprehend | advmod |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 comprehend | advmod |
| 33 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 felt | ccomp |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 comprehend | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 wife | det |
| 36 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wife | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 remarkable | cc |
| 38 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 true | conj |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 what | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 his | cop |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wife | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depress | past · passive | Kao's many sorrows | Kao Mr. | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | part | past | Kao | from Kao's wife | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from wife=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Kao | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not see | should | Kao | Mr. | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | do | past | Kao not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | comprehend | infinitive | Kao | then | what a true wife obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is a | past | Kao not said here | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sorrow | Kao | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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