Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 86

Above all, how will you ever be able to look in the face of my sister, the mother of Ting Lang?”

Who acts: you · What happens: be, look · To what, where: all

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	Above	above	ADP	_	2 all	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 able	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 able	advmod
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 able	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 able	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 able	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 face	det
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sister	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mother	det
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Ting	case
22	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nmod
23	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ting	flat
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	you			all	ever	able property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here					in the face of my sister and the mother of Ting	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 86