Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 77

This he could cook and so keep from starving.

Who acts: This · What happens: cook, keep, starve

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cook	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cook	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cook	aux
4	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cook	conj
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 starving	mark
9	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 keep	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cook	could	This	Yang nsubj	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	This not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	starve	gerund	This not said here		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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 77