Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 19
There is no other song among the many they sing that produces the effect that this one does; man by man they seem to live over the little lad’s life.
Who acts: other song, father, that, one, man · What happens: be, sing, produce, do, seem, live · To what, where: many, effect, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (other song, father, that, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 song | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 song | amod |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 many | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 many | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sing | nsubj |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 many | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 produces | nsubj |
| 12 | produces | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sing | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 effect | det |
| 14 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 produces | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 does | mark |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 does | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 produces | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 seem | punct |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seem | nsubj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seem | nsubj |
| 24 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seem | xcomp |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lad | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lad | amod |
| 30 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 lad | case |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 live | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no other song | the many; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among many=Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | produce | present | that | the effect | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | present | this one | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seem | present | man by man | father nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | man by man not said here | the little lad's life | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over life=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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