Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 107
How different a life was this from that of the wife and mother in the far north.
What happens: be · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 different | advmod |
| 2 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 life | det |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 different | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 this | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 life | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 different | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 that | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mother | cc |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 north | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 north | det |
| 16 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 north | amod |
| 17 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | 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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