Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 69
Your sons are like you in wickedness; your steward is a devil, and you plan with him.
Who acts: sons, steward, you · What happens: be, plan · To what, where: devil
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 (sons, steward, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wickedness | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wickedness | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 wickedness | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wickedness | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wickedness | case |
| 7 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 devil | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 steward | nmod:poss |
| 10 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devil | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 devil | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 devil | det |
| 13 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wickedness | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plan | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 plan | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 plan | nsubj |
| 17 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 devil | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 plan | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wickedness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your sons | like wickedness; you nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your steward | a devil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plan | present | you | with son | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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