Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 18
And when we heard of her death! oh, that was hard indeed!
Who acts: we, that, Righteousness · What happens: hear, be, die
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, that, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 9 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 heard | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hard | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 hard | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | cop |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | we | of Righteousness's death | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | hard, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | Righteousness | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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