Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 120

As old Mr. Hu looked at him his eyes filled and he said, “He has the virtues of Heaven and the strength of the gods; this is a son for the gods, and the glory of his father, grandfather, and most worthy mother; be comforted, son-in-law, we cannot divide the house; the child to seek his father was ready to die, and to our house has come glory, and because of the virtues of this boy the broken household shall be reunited.

Who acts: eyes, eye, this, we, child, father · What happens: look, fill, say, have, be, comfort · To what, where: virtues, son, house, father, glory · 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 (eyes, eye, this, we), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 Hu	case
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hu	amod
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hu	nmod:desc
4	Hu	Hu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 filled	nsubj
10	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 filled	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 virtues	det
19	virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Heaven	case
21	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 virtues	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strength	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 strength	det
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Heaven	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 gods	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gods	det
27	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 strength	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 son	punct
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 son	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 son	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 son	det
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	parataxis
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 gods	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 gods	det
35	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 son	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 glory	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 glory	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 glory	det
39	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 son	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 father	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 father	nmod:poss
42	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 glory	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 grandfather	punct
44	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 father	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 mother	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 mother	cc
47	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 mother	amod
48	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mother	amod
49	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 son	conj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 comforted	punct
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 comforted	aux:pass
52	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looked	parataxis
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 law	punct
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 law	nsubj
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 law	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 law	case
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 in	punct
58	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 comforted	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 divide	punct
60	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 divide	nsubj
61	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 divide	aux
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 divide	advmod
63	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 looked	parataxis
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 house	det
65	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 divide	obj
66	;	;	PUNCT	_	74 ready	punct
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 child	det
68	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 ready	nsubj
69	to	to	PART	_	70 seek	mark
70	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 child	acl
71	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 father	nmod:poss
72	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 seek	obj
73	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 ready	cop
74	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	conj
75	to	to	PART	_	76 die	mark
76	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	74 ready	xcomp
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 come	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 come	cc
79	to	to	ADP	_	81 house	case
80	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	81 house	nmod:poss
81	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 come	obl
82	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	83 come	aux
83	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 looked	parataxis
84	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 come	obj
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 reunited	punct
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	99 reunited	cc
87	because	because	SCONJ	_	99 reunited	mark
88	of	of	ADP	_	87 because	fixed
89	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	90 virtues	det
90	virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	99 reunited	nsubj:pass
91	of	of	ADP	_	93 boy	case
92	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	93 boy	det
93	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	90 virtues	nmod
94	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	96 household	det
95	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	96 household	amod
96	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	99 reunited	nsubj:pass
97	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	99 reunited	aux
98	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	99 reunited	aux:pass
99	reunited	reunite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looked	conj
100	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past			as old Hu Mr.; at Hu	tree rules
2	fill	past	Hu's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	eye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	eye	the virtues of Heaven and the strength of the gods		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient
5	is a in a quote	present	this	a son and most worthy mother	for the gods; the glory of eye's father and grandfather appos; most worthy mother conj	tree rules
6	comfort in a quote	infinitive · passive			law son conj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	not divide in a quote	can	we	the house		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
8	seek in a quote	to-infinitive	the child not said here	father's father		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
9	is in a quote	past	the child		ready property	tree rules
10	die in a quote	to-infinitive	the child not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
11	come in a quote	present · perfect		glory	to our house	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glory=Theme
12	break in a quote	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
13	reunite in a quote	shall · passive		the virtues of this boy	the broken household nsubj:pass	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
14	glory in a quote		eye's father and grandfather			nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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 120