Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 91
“My virtuous and filial son, son of my suffering wife,” and then fell back in a swoon.
What happens: fall back · To what, where: son, swoon
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: 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 | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 filial | cc |
| 5 | filial | filial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 virtuous | conj |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | compound |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 fell | advmod |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 fell | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 swoon | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 swoon | det |
| 21 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall back | past | My virtuous son's son of my suffering wife | a swoon | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location |
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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