Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 44
Those of us in Peking who walk where Miss Russell’s feet have trod still see the spiritual blossoming of that beautiful life.
Who acts: Those · What happens: walk, tread, see · To what, where: feet, spiritual blossoming
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 (Those), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Those | nmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Peking | case |
| 5 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Those | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 trod | advmod |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Miss | flat |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Miss | case |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trod | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 trod | aux |
| 14 | trod | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 walk | ccomp |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 trod | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blossoming | det |
| 18 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blossoming | amod |
| 19 | blossoming | blossoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 life | nsubj |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blossoming | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Those of us in Peking | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tread | present · perfect · passive | Miss's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | present | the spiritual blossoming of beautiful life that | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blossoming=Stimulus |
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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