Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 35

With us, if the male bird dies, the female flies alone; if the female dies the male flies alone; if both parents die their young fly alone for three years.

Who acts: male bird, female, male, parents, young · What happens: die, fly

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 (male bird, female, male, parents), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 us	case
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dies	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dies	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dies	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dies	nsubj
8	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flies	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 female	det
11	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flies	nsubj
12	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dies	conj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 flies	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 dies	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 dies	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 female	det
17	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dies	nsubj
18	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dies	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 male	det
20	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flies	nsubj
21	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dies	conj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 flies	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 die	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 die	mark
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	26 parents	det
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 die	nsubj
27	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dies	parataxis
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 young	nmod:poss
29	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fly	nsubj
30	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 die	conj
31	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 fly	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 years	case
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 years	nummod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fly	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	the male bird		with us	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fly	present	the female		alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die a condition, not said to happen	present	the female			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fly	present	the male		alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die a condition, not said to happen	present	both parents			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	fly	present	parents's young	year	alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 35