Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 23

Go and bring the boy in here at once and revive him, and I will pardon you this cruelty.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, bring, revive, pardon · To what, where: boy, you

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 (you, I), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bring	cc
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 here	case
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bring	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 here	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 revive	cc
11	revive	revive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 revive	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pardon	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pardon	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pardon	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pardon	aux
17	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 pardon	obj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 cruelty	det
20	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pardon	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	infinitive	you not said here		the boy		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination
3	revive	infinitive	you not said here	boy			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	pardon	future	I	you		this cruelty obj	tree rules

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 23