Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 10
Yü Yüch Ying lived to see and hold her great grandchildren, and to see great glory come to their house.
Who acts: Yü, great glory · What happens: live, see, hold, come · To what, where: great grandchildren, great glory, house
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yü, great glory), 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 | Yü | Yü | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | Yüch | Yüch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yü | flat |
| 3 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yü | flat |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lived | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hold | cc |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandchildren | amod |
| 11 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hold | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lived | conj |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 glory | amod |
| 17 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Yü | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Yü not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | Yü not said here | Yü's great grandchildren | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Yü not said here | great glory | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | infinitive | great glory not said here | sons's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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