Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 142
I have longed for you to the death; did you not think, while you were away, of my sadness and loneliness?”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: long, not think, be
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 longed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 longed | aux |
| 3 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 longed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 death | det |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 longed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 longed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 away | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 away | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 away | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 away | cop |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 think | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sadness | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sadness | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 loneliness | cc |
| 24 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sadness | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | present · perfect | I | for you; to the death | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | you | of my sadness and loneliness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | you | away 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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