Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 40
When he could no longer doubt he said, “My life is sweet because the gods have given me such a daughter.
Who acts: father, doubt, life · What happens: doubt, say, be, give · To what, where: gods, doubt · 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 (father, doubt, life), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 doubt | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 doubt | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 doubt | aux |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 doubt | advmod |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sweet | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sweet | punct |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sweet | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sweet | cop |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gods | det |
| 17 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sweet | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 given | iobj |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 daughter | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 daughter | det |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | could | father | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | doubt | father nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | My life | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the gods | doubt | such daughter obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme |
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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