Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 72

“What does this mean?” and turning to the officials he had created he said, “You stand there and see me reviled; you make no motion to help me; life and death are in my hands and you will suffer.”

Who acts: this, official, You, motion, life · What happens: mean, turn, create, say, stand, see · To what, where: officials, official, motion, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this, official, You, motion), 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	_	5 mean	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turning	cc
9	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mean	ccomp
10	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 created	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 officials	det
12	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 created	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 created	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 created	aux
15	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 turning	ccomp
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 created	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
20	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 stand	nsubj
21	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 stand	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stand	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
26	reviled	revile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 see	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	parataxis
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 motion	det
31	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 help	mark
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	xcomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 help	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 hands	punct
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hands	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 death	cc
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 life	conj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 hands	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 hands	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 suffer	cc
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 suffer	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 suffer	aux
46	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present · do-support	this				What obj	tree rules
2	turn	gerund						tree rules
3	create	past · perfect · passive		the officials			official nsubj	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	say speech: ask	past	official					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stand in a quote	present	You			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	infinitive	You not said here	official				tree rules
7	revile in a quote	participle	official not said here					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	make in a quote	present	you	no motion				tree rules
9	help in a quote	to-infinitive	no motion not said here		official			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
10	is in a quote	present	life and death			my hands	my nmod:poss	tree rules
11	suffer in a quote	future	you					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 72

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 72