Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 40
You must promise us this for the sake of your son.
Who acts: You · What happens: promise · To what, where: this, us
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | aux |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | iobj |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 promise | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sake | det |
| 8 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promise | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sake | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | must | You | this | us | for the sake of your son | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal this=Theme |
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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