Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 25

Although I am poor you must not try to make me ashamed, and you need not praise their riches; I may not always be poor and they may not always be rich.

Who acts: I, you, riches · What happens: be, not try, make, not praise, not be · To what, where: me, riches

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, riches), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	4 poor	mark
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	8 try	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 try	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 try	advmod
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 praise	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 praise	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 praise	nsubj
16	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 praise	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 praise	advmod
18	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 riches	nmod:poss
20	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 praise	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 poor	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 poor	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 poor	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 poor	advmod
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 poor	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 poor	cop
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 try	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rich	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rich	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 rich	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 rich	advmod
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 rich	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 rich	cop
34	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 poor	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		poor property	tree rules
2	not try	must	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	ashamed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
4	not praise	present	you	riches's riches		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme
5	not is	may	I		always, poor property	tree rules
6	not is	may	riches = rich		always, rich 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 25

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 25