Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 30
Take away the child, I do not want him.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: take away, not want · To what, where: child
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADP | _ | 1 Take | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 want | advmod |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 want | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | imperative | you not said here | the child | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | I | child | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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