Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 14
Such lives are intense, but their earth span is short.
Who acts: Such lives, earth span · What happens: be
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 (Such lives, earth span), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lives | amod |
| 2 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 intense | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intense | cop |
| 4 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 short | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 span | nmod:poss |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 span | compound |
| 9 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 short | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | cop |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 intense | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Such lives | intense property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | natures's earth span | short 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.
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