Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 14

Her parents laid their commands upon her until at last she yielded so far as to say, “I will marry none but the man who can defeat me in my own mountains.”

Who acts: parents, Ting · What happens: lay, yield, say, marry, defeat, command · To what, where: commands, last, none, Ting, own mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Ting), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 commands	nmod:poss
5	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 laid	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 yielded	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 yielded	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 yielded	nsubj
12	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	advcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 far	advmod
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 yielded	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 say	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 far	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 marry	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 marry	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	aux
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	conj
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 marry	obj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 man	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 none	conj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 defeat	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 defeat	aux
29	defeat	defeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 none	acl:relcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 defeat	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 mountains	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mountains	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mountains	amod
34	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 defeat	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Ting's parents	parents's commands		Ting obj	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent command=Theme her=Destination
2	yield	past	Ting		last	far property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Ting not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	marry in a quote	future	Ting	none the man			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
5	defeat in a quote	can		Ting	my own mountains	who nsubj	tree rules
6	command		parents = parent				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 14