🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 10

He taught the boy some songs and helped him put his own life-story into rhyme, and one day said, “I want you to sing for the ‘foundation beaters,’ who are preparing the ground for a beautiful pavilion in a flower garden belonging to a rich man.

Who acts: boy, one day, you, flower garden · What happens: teach, help, put, say, want, sing · To what, where: songs, boy, own life story, rhyme, you, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, one day, you, flower garden), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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