Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 29
She finished with, “O Great Emperor, I entreat you to allow me to become one of your slaves and thus redeem my father’s mistake, and secure his pardon.
Who acts: Glory, father, Emperor · What happens: finish, entreat, allow, become, redeem, secure · To what, where: you, Glory, one, mistake, pardon · 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, 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 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Emperor | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Emperor | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Emperor | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 Emperor | discourse |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Emperor | amod |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 finished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entreat | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 entreat | nsubj |
| 11 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 finished | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 entreat | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 allow | mark |
| 14 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 entreat | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 allow | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 become | mark |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allow | xcomp |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 become | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 slaves | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 redeem | cc |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 redeem | advmod |
| 24 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 become | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 father | case |
| 28 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 redeem | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 secure | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 secure | cc |
| 31 | secure | secure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 entreat | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 33 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 secure | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | Glory | with Great Emperor | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | entreat in a quote | present | Glory | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | allow in a quote | to-infinitive | Glory not said here | Glory | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | become not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Glory not said here | one of your slaves | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 5 | redeem in a quote | infinitive | Glory not said here | my father's mistake | thus property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme | |||
| 6 | secure in a quote | infinitive | Glory not said here | Emperor's pardon | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pardon=Theme | ||||
| 7 | mistake in a quote | my father | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | pardon in a quote | Emperor | nom pardon «act 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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