Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 13
Her sympathy for those in trouble cost her a sort of agony, her love for her friends was an undying passion.
Who acts: sympathy, sort, Righteousness · What happens: cost, be, sort, love · To what, where: Righteousness, undying passion, agony
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 (sympathy, sort, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sympathy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 those | case |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 sympathy | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 those | nmod |
| 7 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cost | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passion | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 agony | case |
| 12 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 love | nmod:poss |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sort | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 passion | cop |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 passion | det |
| 21 | undying | undying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 passion | amod |
| 22 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cost | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | past | Righteousness's sympathy for those in trouble | Righteousness | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme she=Value | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a sort of agony for Righteousness's friends and Righteousness's love | a undying passion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sort | agony | for Righteousness's friends | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl | |||||
| 4 | love | Righteousness | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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