Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 7
She was a bright, pleasant girl, and had many friends.
Who acts: girl, bright pleasant girl · What happens: be, have · To what, where: bright pleasant girl, many friends
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 (girl, bright pleasant 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bright | punct |
| 6 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | acl:relcl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friends | amod |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl | a bright pleasant girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a bright pleasant girl not said here | many friends | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
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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