Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 28

She told him how good and kind her father was; that every one loved him; he had never made a mistake before, and indeed the thing for which he was to be punished had been much exaggerated.

Who acts: Glory, father, one, Emperor · What happens: tell, be, love, not make, punish, exaggerate · To what, where: Emperor, mistake, thing · 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 (Glory, father, one, Emperor), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 loved	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 one	det
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loved	nsubj
15	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loved	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 made	advmod
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 loved	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mistake	det
23	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	before	before	ADV	_	21 made	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thing	cc
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	29 thing	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thing	det
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 punished	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 punished	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 punished	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	36 punished	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 punished	aux:pass
36	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 thing	acl:relcl
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 exaggerated	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 exaggerated	aux:pass
39	much	much	ADV	_	40 exaggerated	advmod
40	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Glory		Emperor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	Glory's father			good property	tree rules
3	be		Glory's father not said here				tree rules
4	love	past	that one	Emperor			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	not make	past · perfect	Emperor	a mistake		before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
6	punish	past · passive		Emperor		for the thing	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for which=Theme
7	exaggerate	past · perfect · passive		the thing			tree rules

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 Daughter of the Orient, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 28