Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 122

To honour this event, for three days the workmen shall feast on meat and flour, and we will have a great house-feast for three days, that all the friends and relatives may know of our joy.

Who acts: workmen, we, friends, our · What happens: honour, feast, have, know, joy · To what, where: event, great house feast

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 (workmen, we, friends, our), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 honour	mark
2	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 event	det
4	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 honour	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feast	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feast	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 workmen	det
10	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feast	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feast	aux
12	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 honour	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 meat	case
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feast	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flour	cc
16	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meat	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 honour	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 feast	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feast	amod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feast	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 house	punct
26	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 days	nummod
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feast	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 know	mark
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 friends	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 friends	det
34	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 know	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 relatives	cc
36	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 friends	conj
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 know	aux
38	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 honour	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 joy	case
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 joy	nmod:poss
41	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 know	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 honour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	honour	to-infinitive		this event			tree rules
2	feast	shall	the workmen		day	on meat and flour	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on meat=Patient
3	have	future	we	a great house feast	for three days		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient
4	know	may	all friends and relatives			of our joy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of joy=Stimulus
5	joy		our				nom joy «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 122

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 122