Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 137
“Only your own small son, Ting Lang, my mother.”
To what, where: own small son
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: 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 | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 son | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ting | punct |
| 8 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | appos |
| 9 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ting | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mother | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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