Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 41

You must not cause him to weep, and be sad, because of your living in useless poverty.”

Who acts: You, son, your · What happens: not cause, weep, be, live · To what, where: son, useless poverty

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, son, your), 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	4 cause	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cause	advmod
4	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cause	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 weep	mark
7	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cause	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sad	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sad	cop
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 living	punct
13	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 living	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 because	fixed
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 living	nmod:poss
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sad	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 poverty	case
18	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 poverty	amod
19	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 living	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not cause	must	You	son			tree rules
2	weep	to-infinitive	son not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive				because your living in useless poverty; sad property	tree rules
4	live		your		useless poverty		nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 41