Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 35
“For such Death’s portal opens not in gloom, But its pure crystal, hinged on solid gold, Shows avenues interminable—shows Amaranth and palm quivering in sweet accord Of human, mingled with angelic, song.”
What happens: not open, hinge, show, quiver, mingle · To what, where: gloom, pure crystal, avenues, Amaranth, sweet accord
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 portal | case |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Death | amod |
| 4 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 portal | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Death | case |
| 6 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | obl |
| 7 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 opens | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gloom | case |
| 10 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hinged | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hinged | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 crystal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 crystal | amod |
| 15 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hinged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hinged | punct |
| 17 | hinged | hinge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 opens | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 19 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gold | amod |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hinged | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Shows | punct |
| 22 | Shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opens | conj |
| 23 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Shows | obj |
| 24 | interminable | interminable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Shows | xcomp |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 shows | punct |
| 26 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Shows | parataxis |
| 27 | Amaranth | Amaranth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shows | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 quivering | cc |
| 29 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 quivering | compound |
| 30 | quivering | quiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 shows | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 accord | case |
| 32 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 accord | amod |
| 33 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 quivering | obl |
| 34 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 35 human | case |
| 35 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 accord | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mingled | punct |
| 37 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 accord | acl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 angelic | case |
| 39 | angelic | angelic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mingled | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 song | punct |
| 41 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 angelic | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open in a quote | present | gloom | for such Death's portal | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gloom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hinge in a quote | participle · passive | gloom's pure crystal | on solid gold | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on gold=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | present | avenues | interminable property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent avenue=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | show in a quote | present | Amaranth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent amaranth=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | quiver in a quote | gerund | sweet accord of human | palm compound | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in accord=Location | ||||
| 6 | mingle in a quote | participle | sweet accord of human not said here | with angelic and song | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with angelic=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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