Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 102

Their son-in-law came and, kneeling at his father’s feet, said, “Honoured and great father, I have sinned!”

Who acts: son, I · What happens: come, kneel, say, honour, sin · To what, where: feet · 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 (son, I), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 law	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 in	punct
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kneeling	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kneeling	punct
10	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 feet	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feet	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kneeling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Honoured	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Honoured	punct
20	Honoured	honour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 father	cc
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 father	amod
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Honoured	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sinned	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sinned	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sinned	aux
27	sinned	sin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 sinned	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 sinned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	crying's son in law			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kneel	gerund	crying's son in law not said here	Son's father's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
3	say speech: express	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	honour in a quote	participle			great father conj	tree rules
5	sin in a quote	present · perfect	I			vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 3, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 102