Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 149
“I thank Heaven and the gods that the mother and son are united again.
Who acts: Yü, gods · What happens: thank, be · To what, where: Heaven
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 (Yü, gods), 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 | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 united | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gods | det |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 united | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 united | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 united | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 son | cc |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 united | cop |
| 14 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thank | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 united | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Yü | Heaven | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the gods | again | that nsubj; the mother and son nsubj; united 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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