Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 36
She is reduced almost to a beggar.”
What happens: reduce · To what, where: mother, beggar
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: 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 | 3 reduced | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reduced | aux:pass |
| 3 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 beggar | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 beggar | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 beggar | det |
| 7 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reduced | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reduced | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | present · passive | mother | to a beggar goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to beggar=Goal |
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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