Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 68
My young readers who have given your money for Bridgman School and helped to educate this dear girl, does the result of your investment satisfy you?
Who acts: result, your · What happens: give, help, educate, do, satisfy, invest · To what, where: young readers, dear girl, result, you
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 (result, your), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 readers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 readers | amod |
| 3 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 money | nmod:poss |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 School | case |
| 10 | Bridgman | Bridgman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 School | compound |
| 11 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 helped | cc |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 educate | mark |
| 15 | educate | educate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helped | xcomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 educate | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 does | punct |
| 20 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 result | det |
| 22 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 does | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 investment | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 investment | nmod:poss |
| 25 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 satisfy | obl |
| 26 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 result | acl:relcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 satisfy | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | My young readers | for Bridgman School; who nsubj; your money obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient money=Theme for school=Asset | ||||
| 2 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | educate speech: other | to-infinitive | this dear girl | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | do | present | the result | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | satisfy | infinitive | the result not said here | you | of your investment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | invest | your | nom investment «act 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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