Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 32
I entreat, I beg, oh, hear me, Great and Glorious Emperor, spare my father and let me be your slave forever.”
Who acts: I, me · What happens: entreat, beg, hear, spare, let, be · To what, where: me, father, slave
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, me), 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 | 2 entreat | nsubj |
| 2 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 entreat | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hear | punct |
| 7 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 hear | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 oh | punct |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 beg | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Great | punct |
| 12 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hear | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Emperor | cc |
| 14 | Glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Emperor | amod |
| 15 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Great | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spare | punct |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 entreat | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spare | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 entreat | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 slave | cop |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 slave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 let | xcomp |
| 26 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 21 let | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entreat | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 entreat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | infinitive | I | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | spare | infinitive | I not said here | my father | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent father=Asset | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | I not said here | me | forever property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 6 | is a | infinitive | me not said here | your slave | your nmod:poss | 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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