Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 19
“I am poor, I have nothing to give you for all your long, weary journey.
Who acts: Yü, your · What happens: be, have, give, journey · To what, where: nothing, you
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, your), 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 | _ | 4 poor | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 poor | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | cop |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | advcl |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nothing | acl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 journey | det:predet |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 journey | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 journey | amod |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Yü | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Yü | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Yü not said here | nothing not said here | you | for your long weary journey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for journey=Asset | ||
| 4 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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