Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 23
“My son has found his father; the latter has comforts and riches; I will abide here; here where I have suffered will I live my life; I care not for riches; although I am poor I am not covetous.
Who acts: latter, servants · What happens: find, have, abide, suffer, live, not care · To what, where: son, comforts, life
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 (latter, servants), 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 | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 latter | det |
| 10 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 12 | comforts | comfort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 riches | cc |
| 14 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 comforts | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 abide | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 abide | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 abide | aux |
| 18 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | conj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 abide | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 suffered | punct |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 suffered | advmod |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 suffered | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 suffered | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 suffered | aux |
| 25 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 live | advcl |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 live | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 live | nsubj |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 abide | parataxis |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 live | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 care | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 care | nsubj |
| 33 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | conj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 care | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 riches | case |
| 36 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 care | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 covetous | punct |
| 38 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 41 poor | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 poor | nsubj |
| 40 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 poor | cop |
| 41 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 covetous | advcl |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 covetous | nsubj |
| 43 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 covetous | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 covetous | advmod |
| 45 | covetous | covetous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 has | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect · passive | My son | son's father obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme father=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the latter | comforts and riches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient | ||||
| 3 | abide in a quote | future | the servants = servant | here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | present · perfect | the servants = servant | here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | future | the servants = servant | my life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 6 | not care in a quote | present | the servants = servant | for riches | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for rich=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | the servants = servant | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not is in a quote | present | the servants = servant | covetous 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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