Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 8
Ah! had the gods only been good and given me one son!
What happens: have, be, give · To what, where: gods, one son, me
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: 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 had | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 good | cop |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 given | cc |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 good | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 given | iobj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 son | nummod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the gods | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | one son | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=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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