Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 98
I can buy your freedom at the magistrate’s here and if you are ready and willing we will receive you into our family.
Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: buy, be, receive · To what, where: freedom, you, family
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, we), 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 | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 here | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magistrate | det |
| 8 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 magistrate | case |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 buy | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 receive | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 ready | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 receive | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 willing | cc |
| 17 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ready | conj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 receive | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 receive | aux |
| 20 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 buy | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 receive | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receive | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | can | I | your freedom | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme at here=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | receive | future | we | you | our family | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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