Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 147
The bitterness is over and the sweet has come, be comforted and we will all rejoice together.”
Who acts: bitterness, sweet, we · What happens: be, come, comfort, rejoice
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 (bitterness, sweet, we), 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 | 2 bitterness | det |
| 2 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 comforted | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sweet | det |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 over | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comforted | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 comforted | aux:pass |
| 12 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rejoice | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 rejoice | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 rejoice | aux |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 rejoice | advmod |
| 17 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 comforted | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 rejoice | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 comforted | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bitterness | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | the sweet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | comfort | infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 4 | rejoice | future | we | all, together property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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