Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 111

Tu Ching Ling told of his wife, how he had lied about her, of her virtue, and all the sad, miserable story, including his fear to own his son, and sending him off.

Who acts: Tu · What happens: tell, lie, own, send off, fear · To what, where: son · 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 (Tu), 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	Tu	Tu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
2	Ching	Ching	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tu	flat
3	Ling	Ling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tu	flat
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lied	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 lied	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lied	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lied	aux
12	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 virtue	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 virtue	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 virtue	nmod:poss
18	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lied	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 story	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 story	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 story	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
23	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sad	punct
25	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fear	punct
28	including	including	ADP	_	30 fear	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fear	nmod:poss
30	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 own	mark
32	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fear	acl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 own	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sending	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sending	cc
37	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 told	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sending	obj
39	off	off	ADP	_	37 sending	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Tu		of Tu's wife; all sad miserable story and Tu's fear parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	past · perfect	Tu		about wife; wife's virtue conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=Location
3	own	to-infinitive	Tu not said here	Tu's son		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot son=Theme
4	send off	gerund		Son		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	fear		Tu			nom fear «feeling transitive»: 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 111

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 111