Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 134
“Honoured mother, don’t come a step, I am unworthy.”
Who acts: Honoured mother, son · What happens: honour, not come, be · To what, where: step
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 (Honoured mother, son), 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 | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | Honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mother | amod |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 come | advmod |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 step | det |
| 9 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unworthy | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 unworthy | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 unworthy | cop |
| 13 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not come in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Honoured mother | a step | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | son | unworthy property | tree rules |
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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