Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 49

“Nothing,” was the reply; “rest your heart, you are indeed my son, for I also am your father’s wife.”

Who acts: Nothing, reply, you · What happens: be, rest · To what, where: reply, heart, son · 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 (Nothing, reply, you), 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	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 reply	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reply	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reply	det
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 rest	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 rest	punct
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reply	acl:relcl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heart	nmod:poss
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 son	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 son	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 son	cop
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 son	advmod
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	vocative
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wife	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	27 wife	case
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wife	nsubj
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 am	advmod
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wife	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wife	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 father	case
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reply	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 reply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	Nothing	the reply		tree rules
2	rest in a quote	infinitive	the reply not said here	your heart		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	you	my son	my nmod:poss; indeed property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Nothing		for your father's wife; your father nmod:poss	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 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 49