Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 134

“The only one in that court by that name is an old woman who is almost a beggar; she has a small son, but he is off seeking his father.”

Who acts: only one, old woman, woman, Son · What happens: be, have, seek · To what, where: old woman, beggar, small son, father

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 (only one, old woman, woman, Son), 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	_	14 woman	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 name	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 name	det
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 woman	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beggar	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 beggar	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beggar	cop
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 beggar	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beggar	det
19	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beggar	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 son	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 son	amod
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seeking	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 seeking	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seeking	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 seeking	aux
30	off	off	ADP	_	31 seeking	mark
31	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 has	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seeking	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the only one in that court by that name	a old woman		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	a old woman	a beggar	who nsubj; almost property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	woman	a small son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	seek in a quote	present · progressive	Son	Son's father		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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 134

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 134