Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 31
Although she had never seen any of the family this was considered very meritorious in Jade, and she was held up as a model girl to all others in the region.
Who acts: Jade · What happens: not see, consider, hold up · To what, where: any, Jade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jade), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 any | nmod |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 considered | aux:pass |
| 12 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | ccomp |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 meritorious | advmod |
| 14 | meritorious | meritorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Jade | case |
| 16 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 considered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 held | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 held | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 held | aux:pass |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 held | compound:prt |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 25 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 girl | compound |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 others | det |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 region | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 region | det |
| 32 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 others | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Jade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | consider | past · passive | any of the family | Jade | this nsubj:pass; meritorious property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 3 | hold up | past · passive | Jade | as a model girl; to all others in the region | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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