Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 31
Very early the next morning she was up helping to get breakfast, and from her mother-in-law and a neighbour who came in I heard much that filled my heart with joy and pride.
Who acts: reward, neighbour, mother, that · What happens: help up, get, come, hear, fill · To what, where: breakfast, 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 (reward, neighbour, mother, that), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 early | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helping | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helping | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 helping | aux |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 helping | compound:prt |
| 9 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helping | xcomp |
| 12 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 heard | cc |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mother | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 neighbour | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 neighbour | det |
| 24 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mother | conj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 neighbour | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 I | case |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 helping | parataxis |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 filled | advmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 filled | nsubj |
| 32 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | ccomp |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 heart | nmod:poss |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 filled | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 joy | case |
| 36 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 filled | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pride | cc |
| 38 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 joy | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 helping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help up | past · progressive | reward | morning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | reward not said here | breakfast | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breakfast=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a neighbour | in I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in i=Location | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | reward's mother in law and a neighbour | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | fill | past | that | my heart | with joy and pride | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with joy=Instrument |
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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