Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 26

If I hold out my head and tell him to cut it off he has not the strength to do it, even though I stand still and do not resist him.

Who acts: I, prince · What happens: hold out, tell, cut off, have, do, stand · To what, where: head, prince, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 hold	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 hold	compound:prt
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cut	mark
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	parataxis
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 strength	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strength	det
18	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 strength	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stand	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 stand	advmod
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 stand	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 stand	nsubj
26	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	parataxis
27	still	still	ADV	_	26 stand	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 resist	cc
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 resist	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 resist	advmod
31	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stand	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 resist	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hold out	present	I	my head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
4	have	present	prince	the strength			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	prince not said here	strength			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	stand	present	I			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not resist	infinitive · do-support	I not said here	prince			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, A Chinese Hero, sentence 26

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 26