Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 4
With Some of Her Stories of Life in China, to which are added Memorial Sketches of the Author from Associates and Friends
What happens: add · To what, where: Memorial Sketches, Associates
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 Some | case |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Stories | case |
| 4 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Stories | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Some | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Life | case |
| 7 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Stories | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Life | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 added | obl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 added | aux:pass |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Stories | acl |
| 15 | Memorial | memorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Sketches | amod |
| 16 | Sketches | sketch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 added | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Author | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Author | det |
| 19 | Author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sketches | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Associates | case |
| 21 | Associates | associate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 added | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Friends | cc |
| 23 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Associates | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · passive | Memorial Sketches of the Author | Associates and Friends | to RUSSELL's Stories of Life in China | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: sketch=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
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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