Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 14
The sight of the boy had brought back the memory of his early life and the parting with the boy’s mother.
What happens: bring back, sight · To what, where: sight, boy
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 memory | det |
| 10 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 memory | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 parting | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 parting | det |
| 17 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 memory | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 boy | case |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parting | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past · perfect · passive | the sight of the boy | the memory of voice's early life and the parting with the boy's mother obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination memory=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sight | the boy | nom sight «cognition 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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