Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 9
La Mesa, California, January, 1915.
To what, where: Mesa
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 | La | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mesa | det |
| 2 | Mesa | Mesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 California | punct |
| 4 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mesa | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 January | punct |
| 6 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mesa | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1915 | punct |
| 8 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Mesa | list |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mesa | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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