Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 16
During a memorable week of one of her vacations spent in our summer cottage we were made to marvel at her insight into human nature and into the great problems of life.
Who acts: we · What happens: spend, make, marvel · To what, where: vacations, summer cottage, we, insight
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 (we), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 week | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 week | det |
| 3 | memorable | memorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 week | amod |
| 4 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 vacations | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 vacations | nmod:poss |
| 9 | vacations | vacation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 vacations | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cottage | compound |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marvel | mark |
| 19 | marvel | marvel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 insight | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 insight | nmod:poss |
| 22 | insight | insight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marvel | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 nature | case |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nature | amod |
| 25 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marvel | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 problems | cc |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 problems | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 problems | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 problems | amod |
| 30 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nature | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 problems | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | participle | Righteousness's vacations not said here | our summer cottage | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marvel | to-infinitive | we not said here | Righteousness's insight | into human nature and the great problems of life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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