Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 31
Alas! alas! the gods have given him no son to plead for him, and I am but a little girl!
Who acts: I · What happens: give, plead, be · To what, where: alas, son, little girl
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), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 3 alas | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gods | det |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | iobj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 plead | mark |
| 13 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 plead | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 girl | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 girl | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 girl | cop |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 girl | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | alas | no son | the gods nsubj:pass; father iobj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | for father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a little girl | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/7/31/