Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 13

For a day or two he caught no glimpse of the family, and his heart was sad and heavy; so also was the heart of the father, had he but known it.

Who acts: voice, heart · What happens: catch, be, have, known, glimpse · To what, where: glimpse, heart, voice, family

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 (voice, heart), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 glimpse	det
9	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glimpse	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sad	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sad	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sad	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sad	cop
18	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caught	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heavy	cc
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sad	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
23	also	also	ADV	_	26 heart	advmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heart	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heart	det
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 father	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 father	det
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heart	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heart	punct
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	obj
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 known	cc
34	known	known	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 known	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	voice	no glimpse of the family	day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
2	is	past	voice's heart			sad property	tree rules
3	be		voice's heart not said here				tree rules
4	is a	past		the heart		of the father	tree rules
5	have	past	the heart	voice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	known	infinitive	the heart not said here	glimpse			tree rules
7	glimpse			the family			nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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 13

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 13