Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 64
She gained two souls for the Master she loved and left a name that will be fragrant for long years in that village.
Who acts: mother, name · What happens: gain, love, leave, be · To what, where: two souls, Master, name, village
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 (mother, name), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gained | nsubj |
| 2 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 souls | nummod |
| 4 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gained | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Master | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Master | det |
| 7 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gained | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Master | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loved | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 fragrant | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fragrant | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fragrant | cop |
| 17 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 name | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fragrant | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 village | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 village | det |
| 23 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | mother | two souls | for the Master | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme for master=Source | |||
| 2 | love | past | mother | the Master not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | mother not said here | a name | that village | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Theme in village=Location | |||
| 4 | is | future | a name | year | fragrant property | tree rules |
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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