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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

expldetamodnsubjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclnsubjccompdetobjmarkdetnsubjadvclpunctnsubjcasenmodnsubjparataxismarkxcompcasedetamodnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootTherePRONisVERBnoDETotherADJsongNOUNamongADPtheDETmanyADJtheyPRONsingVERBthatPRONproducesVERBtheDETeffectNOUNthatSCONJthisDEToneNOUNdoesVERB;PUNCTmanNOUNbyADPmanNOUNtheyPRONseemVERBtoPARTliveVERBoverADPtheDETlittleADJladNOUN’sPARTlifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3nonoDETPronType=Neg5 songdet
4otherotherADJDegree=Pos5 songamod
5songsongNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
6amongamongADP_8 manycase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 manydet
8manymanyADJDegree=Pos2 isobl
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 singnsubj
10singsingVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 manyacl:relcl
11thatthatPRONPronType=Rel12 producesnsubj
12producesproduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 singccomp
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 effectdet
14effecteffectNOUNNumber=Sing12 producesobj
15thatthatSCONJ_18 doesmark
16thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem17 onedet
17oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing18 doesnsubj
18doesdoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 producesadvcl
19;;PUNCT_24 seempunct
20manmanNOUNNumber=Sing24 seemnsubj
21bybyADP_22 mancase
22manmanNOUNNumber=Sing20 mannmod
23theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 seemnsubj
24seemseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 isparataxis
25totoPART_26 livemark
26liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf24 seemxcomp
27overoverADP_32 lifecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 laddet
29littlelittleADJDegree=Pos30 ladamod
30ladladNOUNNumber=Sing32 lifenmod:poss
31’s'sPART_30 ladcase
32lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing26 liveobl
33..PUNCT_2 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresentno other songthe many; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among many=Location
2sing speech: expresspresentfathervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3producepresentthatthe effectvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result
4dopresentthis onevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5seempresentman by manfather nsubjvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6liveto-infinitiveman by man not said herethe little lad's lifevn 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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