Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 13
Hers was one of those rare natures in which all the lives about them are relived.
Who acts: sparkle · What happens: be, relive · To what, where: one, lives, rare natures
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparkle), 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 | Hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 natures | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 natures | det |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 natures | amod |
| 7 | natures | nature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 relived | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 lives | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lives | det |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 relived | nsubj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lives | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 relived | aux:pass |
| 16 | relived | relive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 natures | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sparkle | one | of that rare natures | tree rules | |||
| 2 | relive | present · passive | all lives about natures | that rare natures | 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.
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