--- title: “In this home I have been but a servant to his grandmother, mother,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: “In this home I have been but a servant to his grandmother, mother, and sisters, but my reward has come to me because they all love me, and my husband and his mother have become Christians. Who acts: girl, reward, servant, husband. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, reward, servant, husband), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:13:21 # text = “In this home I have been but a servant to his grandmother, mother, and sisters, but my reward has come to me because they all love me, and my husband and his mother have become Christians. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 30 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 parataxis _ _ 41 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | girl | this home *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle | | a servant and sisters | | | | to husband's grandmother and mother; sisters *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | my reward | | girl | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present | servant | girl | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **become** *in a quote* | present · perfect | my husband and husband's mother | | | | | Christians *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **reward** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/22/) - ↑ back to [Literary Glory](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/)