Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 17
I was so homesick for my school friends, so longed to go to church and prayer-meeting.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, long, go · To what, where: church
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 homesick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 homesick | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 homesick | advmod |
| 4 | homesick | homesick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friends | compound |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 homesick | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 longed | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 longed | advmod |
| 11 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 homesick | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 longed | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 meeting | cc |
| 17 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meeting | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 prayer | punct |
| 19 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 church | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 homesick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | for my school friends; homesick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | long | participle | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | church and prayer meeting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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