Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 9
She was engaged to a young man of good character, but neither he nor his family had any interest in Christianity.
Who acts: country · What happens: engage, have · To what, where: girl, interest, Christianity
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 (country), 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 | 3 engaged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 engaged | aux:pass |
| 3 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engaged | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 character | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 character | amod |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 13 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 he | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 family | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 he | conj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 engaged | conj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 interest | det |
| 20 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Christianity | case |
| 22 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 interest | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | girl | to a young man of good character | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | country | any interest | Christianity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=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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