Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 43

Then he told of their parting as he had learned it from the lips of his mother.

Who acts: Ting, grandparents · What happens: tell, learn, part · To what, where: parting, lips · 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 (Ting, grandparents), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 parting	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parting	nmod:poss
6	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 learned	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learned	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 learned	aux
10	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learned	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 lips	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lips	det
14	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learned	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lips	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ting			then	of grandparents's parting	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	learn	past · perfect	Ting	parting	the lips of Ting's mother			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from lip=Source
3	part		grandparents = grandparent					nom parting «act intransitive»: 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 43