Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 4
Some of the greatest of this land have passed through much privation and suffering to attain this end.
What happens: pass, suffer, attain · To what, where: Some, much privation, end
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 greatest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 greatest | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greatest | obl |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 passed | aux |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 privation | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 privation | amod |
| 12 | privation | privation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 suffering | cc |
| 14 | suffering | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 passed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 attain | mark |
| 16 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 suffering | xcomp |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attain | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect · passive | Some of the greatest of this land | much privation | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through privation=Destination | ||||
| 2 | suffer | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | attain | to-infinitive | this end | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
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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