Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 7
To Miss Russell’s fellow-workers, who still have the joy of service in the great old-new land which she loved; and who tread the unfamiliar ways with more strength and courage, because in many of them she was the Pathfinder, this little volume is affectionately dedicated by
Who acts: fellow workers, RUSSELL, many · What happens: have, love, tread, be, dedicate, joy · To what, where: joy, great old new land, unfamiliar ways, Pathfinder, little volume, service
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 (fellow workers, RUSSELL, many), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 Miss | case |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 workers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Russell | case |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 workers | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 7 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Miss | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 workers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 joy | det |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 service | case |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joy | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 land | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 land | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 old | punct |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 land | amod |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 service | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 loved | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 loved | nsubj |
| 25 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 land | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 tread | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tread | cc |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 tread | nsubj |
| 29 | tread | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 workers | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ways | det |
| 31 | unfamiliar | unfamiliar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ways | amod |
| 32 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 tread | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 strength | case |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 strength | amod |
| 35 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ways | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 courage | cc |
| 37 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 strength | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 dedicated | punct |
| 39 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 54 dedicated | mark |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 Pathfinder | case |
| 41 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Pathfinder | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 many | nmod |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 Pathfinder | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 Pathfinder | cop |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Pathfinder | det |
| 47 | Pathfinder | pathfinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dedicated | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Pathfinder | punct |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 volume | det |
| 50 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 volume | amod |
| 51 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dedicated | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 dedicated | aux:pass |
| 53 | affectionately | affectionately | ADV | _ | 54 dedicated | advmod |
| 54 | dedicated | dedicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 tread | conj |
| 55 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 dedicated | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Russell's fellow workers | the joy of service in the great old new land | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | |||
| 2 | love | past | RUSSELL | the great old new land | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tread | present | Russell's fellow workers | the unfamiliar ways | with more strength and courage | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Patient with strength=Instrument | |||
| 4 | is | past | many of strength | the Pathfinder | RUSSELL nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | dedicate | present · passive | this little volume | affectionately property | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | joy | service in the great old new land | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=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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