Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 26
Naturally sensitive not only to pain but to danger and to all that was unsightly or repulsive, her sufferings during those two months cannot be measured.
Who acts: sorrow · What happens: be, not measure, suffer · To what, where: sensitive pain
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 (sorrow), 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 | Naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 2 sensitive | advmod |
| 2 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pain | amod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pain | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 pain | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pain | mark |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 measured | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 danger | cc |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 danger | case |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sufferings | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sufferings | det |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 unsightly | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unsightly | cop |
| 15 | unsightly | unsightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 repulsive | cc |
| 17 | repulsive | repulsive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 unsightly | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pain | conj |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 months | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 months | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 months | nummod |
| 24 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sufferings | nmod |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 measured | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 measured | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 measured | aux:pass |
| 28 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 measured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | unsightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | not measure | can · passive | sensitive pain but danger and sorrow's sufferings during that two months | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | |||||
| 4 | suffer | sorrow | during that two months | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent during=obl |
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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