Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 6
“Literary Glory” was the name of a young girl who entered the Bridgman School twelve years ago.
Who acts: Literary Glory, young girl · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: name, Bridgman School
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 (Literary Glory, young girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Glory | punct |
| 2 | Literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Glory | amod |
| 3 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nsubj |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Glory | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 School | det |
| 15 | Bridgman | Bridgman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 School | compound |
| 16 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 entered | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Literary Glory | the name | of a young girl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enter | past | a young girl | the Bridgman School | ago property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Destination |
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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