Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 30

“We consider,” said the wild goose, “that the highest law of virtue and good is to give others an equal chance with ourselves, or even to give them the first choice.

Who acts: We, wild goose, highest law · What happens: consider, say, be, give · To what, where: others, first choice · 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 (We, wild goose, highest law), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 consider	nsubj
3	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 consider	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 consider	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goose	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goose	amod
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 law	det
14	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 law	amod
15	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 virtue	case
17	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 law	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 good	cc
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 law	conj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 give	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	iobj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chance	det
25	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chance	amod
26	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 ourselves	case
28	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 give	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 give	cc
31	even	even	ADV	_	33 give	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 choice	det
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 choice	amod
37	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	consider in a quote	present	We				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the wild goose				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	the highest law of virtue		others	with ourselves; a equal chance obj; give property	tree rules
4	give in a quote	to-infinitive	the highest law of virtue not said here	the first choice	others = other		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient choice=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 30