Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 15
Before many years Miss Russell knew the life histories of most of the thousand Christians connected with the Peking Congregational churches and outstations, knew them with her heart as well as her head.
Who acts: Miss, Christians · What happens: know, connect · To what, where: life histories, Christians
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 (Miss, Christians), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knew | obl |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | flat |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 histories | det |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 histories | compound |
| 9 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knew | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 most | case |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 connected | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thousand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thousand | det |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 connected | obl |
| 15 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 connected | nsubj |
| 16 | connected | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 histories | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 churches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 churches | det |
| 19 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 churches | compound |
| 20 | Congregational | Congregational | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peking | flat |
| 21 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 connected | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 outstations | cc |
| 23 | outstations | outstation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 churches | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 34 head | cc |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 as | fixed |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 as | fixed |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knew | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Miss | the life histories | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | connect | past | Christians | the life histories not said here | of most; of the thousand; with the Peking churches and outstations | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent history=Patient with church=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | know | past | Christians = christian | with Miss's heart; Miss's head conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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