Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 12
She loved the good and she hated the evil of life with equal ardor.
Who acts: Righteousness · What happens: love, hate · To what, where: good, evil
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Righteousness), 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 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 good | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 loved | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hated | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hated | nsubj |
| 7 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evil | det |
| 9 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hated | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 evil | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ardor | case |
| 13 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ardor | amod |
| 14 | ardor | ardor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Righteousness | the good | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hate | past | Righteousness | the evil of life | with equal ardor | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
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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