Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 40

These I have are the half my mother kept, and I was to present them when I found my father.”

Who acts: I, These, half · What happens: have, be, keep, find · To what, where: half, 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 (I, These, half), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 half	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 These	acl:relcl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 half	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 half	det
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 kept	nsubj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 half	obj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 present	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 present	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 present	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 present	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 present	mark
15	present	present	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	ccomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 present	obj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 found	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 present	advcl
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 present	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	These	the half	my mother obj	tree rules
3	keep	past	the half			tree rules
4	is	past	I		mementos = memento obj; present property	tree rules
5	find	past	I	my father		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 40