Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 19
The Chinese pastor came to Miss Russell with his problems, also the child with her new toy.
Who acts: Chinese pastor · What happens: come · To what, where: child, Miss
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 (Chinese pastor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pastor | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pastor | amod |
| 3 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Miss | case |
| 6 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Miss | flat |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 problems | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 problems | nmod:poss |
| 10 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 child | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 toy | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 toy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 toy | amod |
| 18 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 child | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Chinese pastor | the child with Miss's new toy | Miss | with pastor's problems | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to miss=Initial_Location |
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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