Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 29
She was teaching her two little sisters, hoping they could go up to the Bridgman School.
Who acts: heart, sisters · What happens: teach, hope, go up · To what, where: two little sisters · 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, sisters), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 teaching | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 teaching | aux |
| 3 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sisters | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sisters | amod |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 teaching | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoping | punct |
| 9 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 teaching | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hoping | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 go | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 School | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 School | det |
| 16 | Bridgman | Bridgman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 School | compound |
| 17 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · progressive | heart | heart's two little sisters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | heart not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go up | could | sisters = sister | to the Bridgman School | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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