Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 33
If Mark Hopkins, one student, and a log made a college, Miss Russell, a Chinese woman, and a tiny Chinese room made a Social Settlement.
Who acts: Mark, tiny Chinese room · What happens: make · To what, where: college, Social Settlement
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 (Mark, tiny Chinese room), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 2 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 3 | Hopkins | Hopkins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mark | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 student | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 student | nummod |
| 6 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mark | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 log | det |
| 10 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 college | det |
| 13 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Russell | punct |
| 15 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Russell | compound |
| 16 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 college | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 woman | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Russell | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 24 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 room | amod |
| 25 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 room | amod |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Settlement | det |
| 29 | Social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Settlement | amod |
| 30 | Settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Mark | a college Miss Russell | a log nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent college=Product | |||
| 2 | make | past | a tiny Chinese room | a Social Settlement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset settlement=Product |
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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