Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 28

All the other birds are glad to see me because I can tell them the latest news, and I know just how to tell it to produce the best effect.

Who acts: other birds, I · What happens: be, see, tell, know, produce · To what, where: me, latest news, birds, news, best effect · 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 (other birds, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 birds	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 glad	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	cop
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 tell	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 news	det
16	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 news	amod
17	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	parataxis
22	just	just	ADV	_	25 tell	advmod
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 tell	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 produce	mark
28	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 effect	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 effect	amod
31	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 produce	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	all other birds			glad property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	all other birds not said here	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	can	I	the latest news	birds = bird		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient news=Topic
4	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			news		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
6	produce not said to happen	to-infinitive		the best effect			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 28