Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 18
Hers was the gift of making even the brief, formal call an opportunity for speaking the word which might lead to an upward look or an outward vision.
Who acts: Miss, gift, opportunity, word · What happens: be, make, call, speak, lead · To what, where: gift, brief, opportunity, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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, gift, opportunity, word), 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 | 4 gift | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gift | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gift | det |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 gift | acl |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 brief | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brief | det |
| 9 | brief | brief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 11 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 call | amod |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 gift | parataxis |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 opportunity | det |
| 14 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 speaking | mark |
| 16 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 opportunity | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speaking | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lead | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 lead | aux |
| 21 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 word | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 look | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 look | det |
| 24 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 look | amod |
| 25 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lead | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 vision | cc |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 vision | det |
| 28 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 vision | amod |
| 29 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Miss | the gift | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the gift not said here | the brief | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brief=Product | ||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | a opportunity | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opportunity=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | a opportunity not said here | the word | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lead | might | the word | to a upward look or a outward vision | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to look=Patient |
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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