Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 126
She shall come in state and live in luxury all the rest of her life.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: come, live · To what, where: state, luxury rest
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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 state | case |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 live | cc |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rest | case |
| 9 | luxury | luxury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rest | amod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 rest | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | shall | mother | state | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | mother not said here | all luxury rest of mother's life | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rest=Location |
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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