Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 33
She is at present living near Mukden, and it is rumoured that she is to be one of the teachers in a girls’ school to be opened in that city.
Who acts: Jade · What happens: be, rumour, open · To what, where: present living, money, school, one, city
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 living | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 living | case |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 living | amod |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 Mukden | case |
| 7 | Mukden | Mukden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 living | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rumoured | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rumoured | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rumoured | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rumoured | aux:pass |
| 12 | rumoured | rumour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 living | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 one | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 one | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 rumoured | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 teachers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 teachers | det |
| 21 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 school | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 girls | det |
| 24 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 school | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 24 girls | case |
| 26 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rumoured | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 opened | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 opened | aux:pass |
| 29 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rumoured | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 city | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 city | det |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 opened | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jade | present living | near Mukden | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rumour | present · passive | money | a girls's school | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Jade | one | of the teachers | tree rules | |||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive · passive | that city | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in city=Location |
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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