Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 19
Again and again we had written her that there was a room in our home reserved for her perpetual use.
Who acts: we, room, Righteousness · What happens: write, be, reserve, use · To what, where: Righteousness, home
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, room, 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 written | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 written | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 written | aux |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 written | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 written | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reserved | obl |
| 16 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 room | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 use | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 use | nmod:poss |
| 19 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 use | compound |
| 20 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reserved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · perfect | we | Righteousness | again; again | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | a room | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reserve | past | a room not said here | our home | for Righteousness's perpetual use | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for use=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | use | Righteousness | nom use «act 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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