Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 29
So you see that I know much that you, with your great stupid body, can never hope to know.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, know, not hope · To what, where: much
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 (you, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | that | that | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 much | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 body | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hope | punct |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hope | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 hope | advmod |
| 19 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 body | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hope | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | much | that you; with your great stupid body | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not hope | can | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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