Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 41

“When she gave you these, did she tell you when she gave the other half to your father?”

Who acts: half · What happens: give, tell · To what, where: these, you, other half, father · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gave	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gave	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 half	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	amod
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 gave	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	half	these	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient this=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	half		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	past	half	the other half	your father	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to father=Recipient

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 41