Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 77

You dress in silk, satin, and broadcloth; you eat the best of the land, live in a great house, read, write, and have tens of servants to wait at your door.

Who acts: You · What happens: dress, eat, live, read, write, have · To what, where: broadcloth, silk, best, great house, tens, door

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), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 dress	nsubj
2	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silk	case
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dress	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 satin	punct
6	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 silk	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 broadcloth	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 broadcloth	cc
9	broadcloth	broadcloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dress	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dress	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 best	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 eat	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 best	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
19	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 house	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 house	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 house	amod
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 live	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 read	punct
25	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 write	punct
27	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 read	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dress	conj
31	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 servants	case
33	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tens	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wait	mark
35	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 have	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 door	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 door	nmod:poss
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wait	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dress	present	You	broadcloth	silk and satin	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	you	the best of the land		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient
3	live	present	you not said here		a great house	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	read	infinitive	you not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write	infinitive	you not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	present	You not said here	tens of servants		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient
7	wait	to-infinitive	You not said here		your door	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location

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 77

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 77