Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 84
He did not tell of his wife and the great sorrow of his family life, but said his father’s enemy had been the cause of his banishment for life.
Who acts: Yang, enemy, family life · What happens: not tell, say, be, sorrow, banish · To what, where: cause · 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 (Yang, enemy, family life), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sorrow | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sorrow | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sorrow | amod |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | compound |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sorrow | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cause | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cause | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 cause | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cause | det |
| 26 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 banishment | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 banishment | nmod:poss |
| 29 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cause | nmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 banishment | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Yang | of Yang's wife and the great sorrow of Yang's family life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Yang not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | Yang's father's enemy | the cause | of Yang's banishment for life | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sorrow | Yang's family life | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | banish | Yang | for life | nom banishment «state transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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