Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 31
A Bible school for women rose in her future, and after it became a fact, and others were doing most of the routine work, she passed on to work into a reality dreams of a school for women of the higher classes, with lecture courses, mothers’ clubs, and training for social service, a work which for many years to come cannot reach the proportions of her vision.
Who acts: Bible school, present, others, woman, reality, mothers · What happens: rise, become, do, pass on, work, dream · To what, where: future, fact, most, clubs, work
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 (Bible school, present, others, woman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 school | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 school | compound |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 women | case |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 school | nmod |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 future | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 future | nmod:poss |
| 9 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 became | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fact | det |
| 16 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 doing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 doing | cc |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 doing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 doing | aux |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 became | advcl |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 doing | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 work | det |
| 25 | routine | routine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 work | amod |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 most | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 passed | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 passed | nsubj |
| 29 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | parataxis |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 passed | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 work | mark |
| 32 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 passed | advcl |
| 33 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 36 dreams | mark |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 reality | det |
| 35 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dreams | nsubj |
| 36 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 work | ccomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 school | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 school | det |
| 39 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dreams | obl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 women | case |
| 41 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 school | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 classes | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 classes | det |
| 44 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 classes | amod |
| 45 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 women | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 courses | punct |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 courses | case |
| 48 | lecture | lecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 courses | compound |
| 49 | courses | course | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 classes | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 ’ | punct |
| 51 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 ’ | nsubj |
| 52 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 passed | conj |
| 53 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 ’ | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 training | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 training | cc |
| 56 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | parataxis |
| 57 | for | for | ADP | _ | 59 service | case |
| 58 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 service | amod |
| 59 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 training | nmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 work | punct |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 work | det |
| 62 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 training | conj |
| 63 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 71 reach | obj |
| 64 | for | for | ADP | _ | 66 years | case |
| 65 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 years | amod |
| 66 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 reach | obl |
| 67 | to | to | PART | _ | 68 come | mark |
| 68 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 66 years | acl |
| 69 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 71 reach | aux |
| 70 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 71 reach | advmod |
| 71 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 62 work | acl:relcl |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 proportions | det |
| 73 | proportions | proportion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 reach | obj |
| 74 | of | of | ADP | _ | 76 vision | case |
| 75 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 76 vision | nmod:poss |
| 76 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 proportions | nmod |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a Bible school for women | woman's future | training for social service and a work parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in future=Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | present | a fact | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | others | most of the routine work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pass on | past | woman | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | dream | present | a reality | of a school for women of the higher classes and lecture courses | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | ' | present | mothers | clubs | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | not reach | can | a work | year | the proportions of woman's vision obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary proportion=Theme |
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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