Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 130

She wrote of the comforts she could have and the welcome that awaited her.

Who acts: mother, welcome · What happens: write, have, await · To what, where: comforts, mother

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, welcome), 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	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 comforts	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 comforts	det
5	comforts	comfort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comforts	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 awaited	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 welcome	det
11	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 awaited	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 awaited	nsubj
13	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 awaited	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	mother		of the comforts	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	could	mother	the comforts not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient
3	await	past	the welcome	mother	that nsubj	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/19/130/

🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 130

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 130