Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 114

The next day a steward came and told her he suspected the young man was her son; but she said:

Who acts: steward, Ting, young man · What happens: come, tell, suspect, be, say · To what, where: steward, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, Ting, young man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 steward	det
5	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 suspected	nsubj
11	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 son	cop
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suspected	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a steward			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	a steward not said here		steward			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	suspect	past	Ting					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the young man	steward's son			steward nmod:poss	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	steward					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 114