Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 38
Thus, while we have not known the family or state skeletons and the gossip of the women and servants, we are a help to man.
Who acts: we, women · What happens: not know, be, gossip · To what, where: family, help
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, women), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 known | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 known | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 known | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 known | advmod |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 skeletons | cc |
| 11 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skeletons | compound |
| 12 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 family | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gossip | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gossip | det |
| 15 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 family | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 women | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 women | det |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gossip | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 servants | cc |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 women | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 help | det |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 help | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · perfect | we | the family or state skeletons and the gossip of the women and servants | thus property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | present | we | a help | to man | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gossip | the women and servants | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=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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