Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 22
But the things which hurt could no more be put outside of that wide-embracing life than could the things which gave a thrill of joy, or enraptured her with a sense of the beautiful.
Who acts: things · What happens: hurt, put, embrace, give, enrapture, thrill · To what, where: things, embracing life, thrill, Miss, joy
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 (things), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 things | acl:relcl |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 outside | fixed |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 life | nsubj |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 embracing | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wide | punct |
| 16 | embracing | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 life | amod |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 things | case |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 things | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 things | det |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thrill | det |
| 25 | thrill | thrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrill | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 enraptured | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 enraptured | cc |
| 30 | enraptured | enrapture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gave | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 enraptured | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 sense | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sense | det |
| 34 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 enraptured | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 beautiful | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 beautiful | det |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sense | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present | the things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | put | could · passive | the things | embracing life that | than the things | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside life=Destination | |||
| 3 | embrace | gerund | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | the things | a thrill of joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrill=Theme | ||||
| 5 | enrapture | past | the things not said here | Miss | with a sense of the beautiful | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | thrill | joy | nom thrill «feeling transitive»: of=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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