Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 145
They hoped for her day and night, and their hearts were hungry for her friendship, even as her two sons needed her instruction.”
Who acts: servants, hearts, two sons, Yü · What happens: hope, be, need, instruct · To what, where: instruction
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 (servants, hearts, two sons, Yü), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hoped | nsubj |
| 2 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hoped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hungry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hungry | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hungry | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hungry | cop |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hoped | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 friendship | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hungry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 needed | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 needed | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 needed | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sons | nummod |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 needed | nsubj |
| 23 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hoped | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 instruction | nmod:poss |
| 25 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 needed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | servants = servant | day | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | past | servants's hearts | for Yü's friendship; hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | past | Yü's two sons | Yü's instruction | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot instruction=Theme | ||||
| 4 | instruct | Yü | nom instruction «communication 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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