Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 39
“We have a plenty for all; we will put this in the care of a big store here; our master is part owner in it, and you must go to him for it when you need it.
Who acts: We, master, you, big store · What happens: have, put, be, go, need, care · To what, where: plenty, this, care, part owner, owner, boy
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 (We, master, you, big store), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plenty | det |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 care | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 care | det |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 store | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 store | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 store | amod |
| 19 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 care | nmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 put | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 owner | punct |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 master | nmod:poss |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 owner | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 owner | cop |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 owner | compound |
| 26 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 owner | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 go | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 go | obl |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 need | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 need | nsubj |
| 40 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 need | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | We | a plenty | for all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | future | we | this | the care of a big store; here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in care=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | our master | part owner | owner | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | must | you | boy | for master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | need in a quote | present | you | master | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | care in a quote | a big store | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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