Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 25

I can hear all the family secrets, know all that goes on in the family and state.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: hear, know, go on · To what, where: family secrets, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 secrets	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 secrets	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secrets	compound
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	parataxis
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 goes	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 goes	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 family	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 family	det
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goes	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 state	cc
18	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 family	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	can	I	all family secrets		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
2	know	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go on	present	that		the family and state	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in family=Location

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 25