Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 9

The mother took in sewing and washing and most of all gave herself to the care of her son, and in this quiet manner twelve years came and went.

Who acts: mother, most, quiet manner, son · What happens: take, give, come, go, care · To what, where: sewing, mother

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, most, quiet manner, son), 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 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 sewing	case
5	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 washing	cc
7	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sewing	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 gave	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 most	nmod
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 gave	iobj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 care	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 care	det
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 son	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 care	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 manner	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 manner	det
24	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 manner	amod
25	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
26	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 years	nummod
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 manner	obl:unmarked
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the mother		sewing and washing		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sewing=Location
2	give	past	most of all	mother		to the care of mother's son	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to care=Recipient
3	come	past	this quiet manner twelve years				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	this quiet manner twelve years not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	care		mother's son				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 9