Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 88
“Son, your father is not worthy, but kneel to him and make your greeting and give him your mother’s message.”
Who acts: Son, your · What happens: not be, kneel, make, give, greet · To what, where: father, greeting, message
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 (Son, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 2 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 worthy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worthy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worthy | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 worthy | advmod |
| 8 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kneel | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 kneel | cc |
| 11 | kneel | kneel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 worthy | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kneel | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 kneel | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 17 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 message | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 24 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 worthy | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Son | your father nsubj; worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kneel in a quote | infinitive | father | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | your greeting | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset greeting=Product | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | your mother's message | father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient message=Theme | ||||
| 5 | greet in a quote | your | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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