Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 48

You do, indeed, chatter about small affairs like foolish women and girls and thus are beneath my notice and I bid you good-day.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: do, chatter, be, bid · 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: who acts (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 do	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chatter	punct
6	chatter	chatter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 do	parataxis
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 affairs	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 affairs	amod
9	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chatter	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 women	case
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 women	amod
12	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 affairs	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 girls	cc
14	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 women	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 notice	cc
16	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 notice	advmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 notice	cop
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	20 notice	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 notice	nmod:poss
20	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 affairs	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bid	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bid	nsubj
23	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chatter	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 bid	obj
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bid	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	You			indeed property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chatter	infinitive				about small affairs like foolish women and girls and my notice	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about affair=Topic
3	is	present				beneath my notice; my nmod:poss; thus property	tree rules
4	bid	past	I	you	day		tree rules

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 48