Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 49
It was a joy to see her pride in her poor home where everything was very clean and neat, and as she moved about getting breakfast I thanked God for this “new woman” in China.
Who acts: Little, everything, joy, I · What happens: be, see, move, get, thank, pride · To what, where: joy, pride, poor home, breakfast, God, China
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 (Little, everything, joy, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 joy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 joy | det |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 joy | acl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pride | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 clean | advmod |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 clean | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clean | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 clean | advmod |
| 17 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 neat | cc |
| 19 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clean | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thanked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thanked | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 moved | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 moved | nsubj |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thanked | advcl |
| 25 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 26 getting | mark |
| 26 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 moved | advcl |
| 27 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 getting | obj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 thanked | nsubj |
| 29 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joy | conj |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 thanked | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 woman | case |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 woman | nsubj |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 woman | punct |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 woman | amod |
| 35 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thanked | obl |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 woman | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 China | case |
| 38 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 thanked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Little | a joy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | joy's pride | joy's poor home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | everything | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | everything not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | move | past | joy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get | gerund | joy not said here | breakfast | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breakfast=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | thank speech: thank | past | I | God | China | for new woman this | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for woman=Attribute | ||
| 8 | pride | joy | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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