Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 17
How can I live through these days and not know how you are?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: live, not know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 live | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 days | det |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 are | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 are | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | I | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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