Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 116

“Thank the gods, thank the gods, that from your house has come forth such a son.

Who acts: that · What happens: thank, come · To what, where: gods

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 (that), 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 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gods	det
4	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct
6	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gods	det
8	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 come	nsubj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nmod
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thank	parataxis
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 son	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 son	det
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	vocative
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		the gods		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		the gods		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	that from your house		such son vocative; forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 116