Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 42
Because of these things you are treated with contempt and looked lightly upon by all.
What happens: treat, look · To what, where: you
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: 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 things | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 treated | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 treated | aux:pass |
| 7 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 contempt | case |
| 9 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 treated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 treated | conj |
| 12 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | present · passive | you | because this things; with contempt | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with contempt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | upon all; lightly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon all=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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