Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 82

Look at this your son, and think of his twelve years; ah! they have made him a stronger man, though a boy yet, than his father.

Who acts: you, clothing · What happens: look, think, make · To what, where: stronger man, Son

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, clothing), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 son	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 son	det
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 think	cc
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 years	nmod:poss
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
14	ah	ah	INTJ	_	18 made	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 ah	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Look	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 yet	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 yet	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yet	nsubj
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 father	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here				at your son	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme
2	think speech: other	infinitive	you not said here			year		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present · perfect	clothing	a stronger man	Son	yet	boy's father conj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary man=Product

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 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 82