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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 57

As she raised him up she said, “You have indeed suffered; you are the best and bravest boy I ever heard of; you shall never leave us.”

Who acts: mother, You · What happens: raise up, say, suffer, be, hear, not leave · To what, where: Ting, bravest boy, us · 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, 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

marknsubjadvclobjcompound:prtnsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxadvmodccomppunctnsubjcopdetccompccamodconjnsubjadvmodacl:relcloblpunctnsubjauxadvmodccompobjpunctpunctrootAsSCONJshePRONraisedVERBhimPRONupADPshePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTYouPRONhaveAUXindeedADVsufferedVERB;PUNCTyouPRONareAUXtheDETbestADJandCCONJbravestADJboyNOUNIPRONeverADVheardVERBofADP;PUNCTyouPRONshallAUXneverADVleaveVERBusPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 raisedmark
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 raisednsubj
3raisedraiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 saidadvcl
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 raisedobj
5upupADP_3 raisedcompound:prt
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 saidnsubj
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8,,PUNCT_13 sufferedpunct
9“"PUNCT_13 sufferedpunct
10YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs13 sufferednsubj
11havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 sufferedaux
12indeedindeedADV_13 sufferedadvmod
13sufferedsufferVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 saidccomp
14;;PUNCT_18 bestpunct
15youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs18 bestnsubj
16arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 bestcop
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 bestdet
18bestgoodADJDegree=Sup7 saidccomp
19andandCCONJ_21 boycc
20bravestbraveADJDegree=Sup21 boyamod
21boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing18 bestconj
22IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 heardnsubj
23evereverADVPronType=Ind24 heardadvmod
24heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 boyacl:relcl
25ofofADP_24 heardobl
26;;PUNCT_30 leavepunct
27youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs30 leavensubj
28shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin30 leaveaux
29neverneverADVPronType=Neg30 leaveadvmod
30leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf7 saidccomp
31uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs30 leaveobj
32..PUNCT_30 leavepunct
33”"PUNCT_30 leavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1raise uppastmotherTingvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2say speech: assertpastmothervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3suffer in a quotepresent · perfectYouindeed propertyvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4is in a quotepresentyoubravest boy conj; good propertytree rules
5hear in a quotepastmotherbravest boy not said hereevervn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
6not leave in a quoteshallyouusvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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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