Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 8

You dry your tears and stay here with me a few days, and I promise you, you will yet be a happy boy.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: dry, stay, promise, be · To what, where: tears, you, happy boy

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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 dry	nsubj
2	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tears	nmod:poss
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dry	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stay	cc
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dry	conj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stay	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stay	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 promise	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 promise	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 promise	nsubj
16	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dry	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 promise	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 boy	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 boy	aux
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 boy	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 boy	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boy	det
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promise	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dry	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	You	your tears					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
2	stay	infinitive	You not said here			here	day	with me	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location
3	promise speech: promise	present	I		you				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	is a	future	you	a happy boy			yet		tree rules

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 8