Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 33

These she at first refused, but at last, to satisfy them, as she knew that the servants would suffer if she did not, she said:

Who acts: These, latter, servants · What happens: refuse, satisfy, know, suffer, not do, say · To what, where: garments · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (These, 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 refused	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 refused	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 refused	obl
5	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 last	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 refused	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 satisfy	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 satisfy	mark
12	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 last	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 satisfy	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 satisfy	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 suffer	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 servants	det
20	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 suffer	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 suffer	aux
22	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	ccomp
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 did	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 suffer	advcl
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 did	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 refused	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	These		latter nsubj	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	satisfy	to-infinitive		garments = garment		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	know	past	latter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	suffer	would	the servants			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not do a condition, not said to happen	past	latter			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	latter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 33