Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 64

“Greet him as I tell you, and afterward I will explain matters to you.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: greet, tell, explain, matter · To what, where: Son, you · 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 (you, I), 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 Greet	punct
2	Greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Greet	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Greet	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explain	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 explain	cc
10	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	13 explain	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 explain	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 explain	aux
13	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 matters	csubj
14	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 matters	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Greet	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Greet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Son		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	explain speech: assert in a quote	future	I		afterward property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	matter in a quote	present		you		vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer

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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 64