Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 10
Every one was so busy with his own losses that it was daylight before it was known that Mr. Lee was missing.
Who acts: one, clothing, Lee · What happens: be, know · To what, where: daylight, clothing
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, clothing, Lee), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 losses | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 losses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 losses | amod |
| 9 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 busy | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 daylight | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 daylight | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 daylight | cop |
| 13 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 busy | advcl |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 known | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 known | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux:pass |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 busy | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 missing | mark |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lee | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 missing | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 missing | cop |
| 22 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 known | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | every one | with Lee's own losses; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | clothing | daylight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | clothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Lee Mr. | missing 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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