Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 65

The boys then bent the knee to each other and then the mother told her son that she was a second wife; that the first wife was the mother of Ting Lang, and she was also his mother; that Ting Lang was also her son, and they were to care tenderly for each other.

Who acts: boys, mother, first wife, Ting Lang, manners · What happens: bend, tell, be, care · To what, where: knee, son, second wife, mother · 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 (boys, mother, first wife, Ting Lang), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bent	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bent	advmod
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knee	det
6	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 bent	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 told	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wife	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wife	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wife	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wife	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 wife	amod
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	ccomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 mother	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 mother	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wife	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 wife	amod
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mother	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 mother	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Ting	case
32	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mother	nmod
33	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Ting	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 mother	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 mother	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 mother	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 mother	cop
38	also	also	ADV	_	40 mother	advmod
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mother	nmod:poss
40	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 son	punct
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 Lang	nsubj
43	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Lang	compound
44	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 son	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 son	cop
46	also	also	ADV	_	48 son	advmod
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 son	nmod:poss
48	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 care	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 care	cc
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 care	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 care	aux
53	to	to	PART	_	54 care	mark
54	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 son	acl:relcl
55	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 care	xcomp
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 each	case
57	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	55 tenderly	obl
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 each	fixed
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	the boys	the knee		then	to each result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent knee=Patient to each=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	the mother		mother's son	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	is a	past	mother	a second wife				tree rules
4	is a	past	the first wife	the mother			of Ting	tree rules
5	is a	past	mother	Son's mother			Son nmod:poss	tree rules
6	is a	past	Ting Lang that	mother's son			mother nmod:poss	tree rules
7	care	past	manners				tenderly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 65

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 65