Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 59

She sent a servant to call her own little son, Kan Lang, and when he came he asked, “Did you call me, mother?”

Who acts: mother, Son, you · What happens: send, call, come, ask · To what, where: servant, own little son, 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 (mother, Son, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 call	mark
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Kan	punct
12	Kan	Kan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	appos
13	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Kan	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
23	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 call	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mother	punct
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	mother	a servant			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	call	to-infinitive	mother not said here		mother's own little son		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	come	past	Son				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Son				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	call in a quote	past · do-support	you		Son	mother obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 59