Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 98

Then Hu Yüch Ying said, “If indeed you will listen to me, I will forgive you.”

Who acts: Hu, you · What happens: say, listen, forgive · To what, where: Hu, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hu, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	Hu	Hu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hu	flat
4	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hu	flat
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 indeed	mark
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 listen	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 listen	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 listen	aux
12	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 listen	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 forgive	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 forgive	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 forgive	aux
18	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 listen	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 forgive	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hu			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen in a quote	future	you		Hu		indeed property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
3	forgive in a quote	future	Hu	you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 98