Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 37
Sometimes she walked so far with others into the Valley of Baca that no strength was left to make it a well.
Who acts: RUSSELL · What happens: walk, leave, make · To what, where: that, Valley
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), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 walked | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 Valley | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Valley | det |
| 10 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Baca | case |
| 12 | Baca | Baca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Valley | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 left | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 strength | det |
| 15 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux:pass |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 left | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 well | det |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 make | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | RUSSELL | with others; far, sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | that | the Valley of Baca | no strength nsubj:pass | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source into valley=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Valley | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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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