Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 65
Faithful in the small things, she filled the cup to overflowing by giving her life.
Who acts: mother · What happens: fill, overflow, give · To what, where: cup, life
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), 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 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 things | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 things | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Faithful | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 filled | nsubj |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Faithful | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cup | det |
| 10 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obj |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 12 overflowing | mark |
| 12 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 filled | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 giving | mark |
| 14 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 overflowing | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Faithful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | mother | the cup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 2 | overflow | gerund | mother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | mother not said here | mother's life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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