Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 30
I shall have long years to serve you, and my father is old.
Who acts: I, father · What happens: have, serve, be · To what, where: you
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, father), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 serve | mark |
| 7 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 serve | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 old | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 old | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 old | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | cop |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | present | my father | old property | 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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