--- title: With my own hands I plastered the inside walls and cleaned up the co… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: With my own hands I plastered the inside walls and cleaned up the court, but,” said the dear girl as she took my hand, “it is such a joy now and God has been good to me.” Who acts: I, girl, house, God. 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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 (I, girl, house, God), 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:pg75089:13:25 # text = With my own hands I plastered the inside walls and cleaned up the court, but,” said the dear girl as she took my hand, “it is such a joy now and God has been good to me.” 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 plastered plaster VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cleaned clean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 34 det:predet _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 cop _ _ 40 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plaster** | past | I | the inside walls | | | | with my own hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Destination with hand=Theme | | 2 | **clean up** | past | I *not said here* | the court | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I *not said here* | the dear girl | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | past | girl | my hand | | | now | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | house | such joy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present · perfect | God | | me | | | good *property* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/26/) - ↑ back to [Literary Glory](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/)