Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 80

Twelve years for her of bitterness and death, forgotten by the man she trusted and for whom she gave her beauty of person.

Who acts: mother · What happens: forget, trust, give · To what, where: bitterness, man, beauty

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 (mother), 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	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bitterness	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 bitterness	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bitterness	nmod:poss
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bitterness	case
6	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 death	cc
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bitterness	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forgotten	punct
10	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bitterness	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgotten	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trusted	nsubj
15	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 whom	case
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gave	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trusted	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 beauty	nmod:poss
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 person	case
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beauty	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bitterness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	participle		mother's bitterness Twelve years and death not said here	by the man	tree rules
2	trust	past	mother	the man not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	give	past	mother	mother's beauty of person	whom obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme for whom=Asset

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 80