Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 105
“Arise, my children, all of you,” and lifted up his son-in-law; the mother took her daughter in her arms, and two servants came forward and lifted up the boys.
Who acts: you, mother, two servants · What happens: arise, lift up, take, come forward · To what, where: children, son, law, daughter, arms, boys
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 (you, mother, two servants), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
| 2 | Arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Arise | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 all | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 children | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 all | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lifted | cc |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Arise | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 lifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mother | det |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lifted | parataxis |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 arms | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 arms | nmod:poss |
| 29 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 servants | nummod |
| 33 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 35 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lifted | cc |
| 37 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 came | conj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 lifted | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boys | det |
| 40 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lifted | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my children | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | you not said here | man's son | law | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme in law=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | the mother | mother's daughter | mother's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 4 | come forward | past | two servants | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lift up | past | two servants not said here | the boys | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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