Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 11
A year ago the writer visited her in her village and at night shared the same room.
Who acts: writer · What happens: visit, share · To what, where: girl, village, same room
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (writer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 visited | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 writer | det |
| 5 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visited | nsubj |
| 6 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 visited | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 village | nmod:poss |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visited | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shared | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shared | obl |
| 14 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 visited | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 room | amod |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shared | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | the writer | girl | girl's village | ago property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | share | past | the writer not said here | the same room | night | tree rules |
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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