Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 36
From those who disappointed her hope after long patience of love she might recoil into an attitude which seemed like prejudice.
Who acts: RUSSELL, attitude · What happens: disappoint, recoil, seem, hope · To what, where: hope, those, long patience, attitude
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 (RUSSELL, attitude), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 disappointed | obl |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 disappointed | nsubj |
| 4 | disappointed | disappoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hope | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disappointed | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 patience | case |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 patience | amod |
| 9 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disappointed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 love | case |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 patience | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recoil | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 recoil | aux |
| 14 | recoil | recoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 patience | acl:relcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 attitude | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 attitude | det |
| 17 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recoil | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 attitude | acl:relcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 prejudice | case |
| 21 | prejudice | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappoint | past | RUSSELL's hope | those | after long patience of love | who nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | recoil | might | RUSSELL | long patience of love not said here | a attitude | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | past | a attitude | like prejudice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hope | RUSSELL | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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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