Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 15
All men, women, and children were brothers and sisters to her, and to spend and be spent for them was a spiritual hunger.
Who acts: children, men · What happens: be, spend · To what, where: brothers, Righteousness
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 (children, men), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spend | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 women | punct |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brothers | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brothers | cc |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brothers | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brothers | cop |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sisters | cc |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brothers | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spend | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spend | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spend | mark |
| 17 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spent | cc |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 spent | aux:pass |
| 20 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 spend | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 hunger | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hunger | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hunger | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hunger | det |
| 25 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hunger | amod |
| 26 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | children | brothers and sisters | Righteousness | sisters conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | spend | to-infinitive | all men and women | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spend | infinitive · passive | all men and women not said here | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | is | past | children = child | for a spiritual hunger | 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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