Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 7
This the sons did in a most respectful manner and promised to reward them.
Who acts: sons · What happens: do, promise, reward · To what, where: respectful manner, sons
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 (sons), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sons | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sons | det |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 manner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 manner | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 respectful | advmod |
| 8 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manner | amod |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promised | cc |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 reward | mark |
| 13 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reward | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this sons | a respectful manner | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | this sons not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | reward not said to happen | to-infinitive | this sons not said here | sons = son | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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