Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 70
Your great literary name is wild and worthless; judgment awaits you, the judgment of Heaven.”
Who acts: great literary name, judgment, Your · What happens: be, await, name, judge · To what, where: you, Heaven
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 (great literary name, judgment, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 name | amod |
| 3 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 name | amod |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wild | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wild | cop |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 worthless | cc |
| 8 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wild | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 awaits | punct |
| 10 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 awaits | nsubj |
| 11 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wild | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 awaits | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 judgment | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 judgment | det |
| 15 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 awaits | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Heaven | case |
| 17 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 judgment | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wild | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your great literary name | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Your great literary name not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | await | present | judgment | you | the judgment of Heaven obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | Your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | judge | Heaven | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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