Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 92

I have a beautiful daughter; will you marry her, come and live with us, take my cares upon you; when I am old care for me?

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: have, marry, come, live, take, be · To what, where: beautiful daughter, Ching, cares, old care

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 (I, you, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 marry	punct
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 marry	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 live	cc
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 live	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 marry	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cares	nmod:poss
20	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 take	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 care	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 care	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 care	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 care	cop
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 care	amod
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 care	nmod
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a beautiful daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	marry	future	you	Ching		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	come	infinitive	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	infinitive	you not said here		with us	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location
5	take	infinitive	you not said here	my cares	upon you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	is a	present	I	old care	for me	tree rules
7	care		my			nom care «act 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 92