Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 30

“I remember hearing my mother say that he was older than she by two years, and so he should be thirty-eight.”

Who acts: mother, father · What happens: remember, hear, say, be · To what, where: thirty eight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, father), 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	_	3 remember	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 remember	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hearing	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 older	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 older	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 older	cop
11	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 say	ccomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 she	case
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 older	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 older	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eight	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eight	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 eight	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eight	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eight	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 eight	cop
23	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 eight	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 eight	punct
25	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 remember	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present	my mother = mother				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear in a quote	gerund	my mother = mother not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	my mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	father		year	than mother; old property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	should	father	thirty eight			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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 30