Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 11

They are in need of a leading voice such as you have, and you can sing for them; you may also sing your own song at that place.”

Who acts: songs, you, your · What happens: be, lead, have, sing · To what, where: need, leading voice, own song, place

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 (songs, you, your), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 need	case
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 voice	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voice	det
7	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 voice	amod
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nmod
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 have	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 voice	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sing	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sing	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sing	aux
17	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sing	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sing	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 sing	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sing	aux
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 sing	advmod
24	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	parataxis
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 song	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 song	amod
27	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sing	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	songs = song		need	of a leading voice	tree rules
2	lead	gerund					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	have	present	you	a leading voice not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
4	sing speech: express	can	you			for songs = song	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for they=Recipient
5	sing speech: express	may	you	your own song	that place		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	sing		your				nom song «communication 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 3, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 11