Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 37
People come to depend on us, and make ready for either their spring work or the cold of winter.
Who acts: People · What happens: come, depend, make, work
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 depend | mark |
| 4 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 come | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 depend | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 come | conj |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 12 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 15 work | cc:preconj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 work | nmod:poss |
| 14 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | compound |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ready | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 cold | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cold | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 winter | case |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cold | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | People | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | depend | to-infinitive | People not said here | on us | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | People not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | work | people | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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