Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 51

How she did want to show her love; later on, when the neighbouring women came in for a little service she came and sat with her arms about me.

Who acts: joy, neighbouring women · What happens: want, show, neighbour, come in, come, sit · To what, where: love, little service

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 (joy, neighbouring women), 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 want	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 love	nmod:poss
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 came	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 later	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 women	det
15	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 women	amod
16	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	parataxis
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 service	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 service	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 service	amod
22	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 service	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 arms	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sat	obl
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	joy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	joy not said here	joy's love		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient
3	neighbour	gerund				tree rules
4	come in	past	the neighbouring women		for a little service; late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	joy	a little service not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location service=Theme
6	sit	past	the neighbouring women not said here		with joy's arms; about me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about i=Location
7	love		joy			nom love «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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 51

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 51