Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 97

When Chin Pa came over the river and saw the stone with the four large characters he said, “Woe is me, even the worms and ants know that Heaven has deserted me.

Who acts: Chin, Woe, worms, Heaven · What happens: come, see, say, be, know, desert · To what, where: river, stone, Chin · 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 (Chin, Woe, worms, Heaven), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	Pa	Pa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Chin	flat
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 characters	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 characters	det
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 characters	nummod
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 characters	amod
16	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 me	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 me	punct
21	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 me	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 me	cop
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 worms	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 worms	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 worms	det
27	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 know	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ants	cc
29	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 worms	conj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 deserted	mark
32	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 deserted	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 deserted	aux
34	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 know	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 deserted	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Chin		the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over river=Initial_Location
2	see	past		the stone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Chin			with the four large characters	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	Woe	Chin			tree rules
5	know in a quote	present	the worms and ants				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	desert in a quote	present · perfect	Heaven	Chin			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme i=Source

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/97/

🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 97