Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 32
There could be no more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings which would help to make her dreams come true.
Who acts: more fitting memorial, buildings, dreams, memorial · What happens: be, help, make, come, dream
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 (more fitting memorial, buildings, dreams, memorial), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 memorial | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 memorial | amod |
| 6 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 memorial | amod |
| 7 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Russell | case |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Russell | compound |
| 10 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 memorial | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 buildings | case |
| 12 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 memorial | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 buildings | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 help | xcomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | ccomp |
| 21 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 come | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | could | more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | would | buildings | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | buildings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | present | memorial's dreams | true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dream | memorial | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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