Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 27
How my heart ached as she told me how she had longed with such a longing for Christian fellowship and companionship.
Who acts: heart · What happens: ache, tell, long · To what, where: me, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ached | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ached | nsubj |
| 4 | ached | ache | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ached | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 longed | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 longed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 longed | aux |
| 12 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 longing | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 longing | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 longing | det |
| 16 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longed | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fellowship | case |
| 18 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fellowship | amod |
| 19 | fellowship | fellowship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 companionship | cc |
| 21 | companionship | companionship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fellowship | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ache | participle | my heart | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | heart | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | long | past · perfect · passive | heart | with such longing; for Christian fellowship and companionship | 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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