Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 42
For those who find their richest fruition in deeds accomplished, we crave the threescore years and ten, crowded with achievement.
Who acts: we, others · What happens: find, accomplish, crave, fruit · To what, where: richest fruition, deeds
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 (we, others), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 crave | obl |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fruition | nmod:poss |
| 6 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 fruition | amod |
| 7 | fruition | fruition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 deeds | case |
| 9 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | obl |
| 10 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 deeds | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 crave | nsubj |
| 13 | crave | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 years | det |
| 15 | threescore | threescore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 years | compound |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crave | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ten | cc |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crowded | punct |
| 20 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 years | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 achievement | case |
| 22 | achievement | achievement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crowded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 crave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | others's richest fruition | deeds | who nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruition=Topic | |||
| 2 | accomplish | participle | deeds not said here | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | crave | present | we | year | for those | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for that=Theme | |||
| 4 | fruit | others = other | nom fruition «state 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/1/42/