Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 38
It might seem that the outpouring of her life was too lavish, and so injudicious.
Who acts: It, outpouring · What happens: seem, be
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 (It, outpouring), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seem | aux |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lavish | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 outpouring | det |
| 6 | outpouring | outpouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lavish | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outpouring | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lavish | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 lavish | advmod |
| 12 | lavish | lavish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 injudicious | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 injudicious | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 injudicious | advmod |
| 16 | injudicious | injudicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lavish | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | might | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the outpouring of RUSSELL's life | lavish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the outpouring of RUSSELL's life not said here | tree rules |
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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