Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 88
If you stay on, you will some day all be killed; then who will worship at the grave of your fathers and hand down the name?”
Who acts: you · What happens: stay on, kill, worship, hand down · To what, where: you, grave, name
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), 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 stay | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 stay | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | aux |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 killed | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 killed | aux:pass |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 worship | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 worship | advmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 worship | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 worship | aux |
| 17 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 killed | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 grave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grave | det |
| 20 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worship | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fathers | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grave | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hand | cc |
| 25 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 worship | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 hand | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 worship | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 worship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay on a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | future · passive | you | day | all property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | worship | future | the grave of your fathers | then | who nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | hand down | infinitive | the name | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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