Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 7
“Son, listen to me; I will help you find your father again, and a plan by which he must own you.
Who acts: Son, poor lad, you · What happens: listen, help, find, own · To what, where: plan, poor lad, you, father
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 (Son, poor lad, 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 | _ | 4 listen | punct |
| 2 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 listen | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 listen | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 find | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plan | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 plan | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 plan | det |
| 19 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 own | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 own | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 own | aux |
| 24 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 plan | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 own | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | Son | a plan | the poor lad = lad | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | future | the poor lad = lad | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your father | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic | |||
| 4 | own in a quote | must | Son | you | by a plan | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=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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