Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 20
It was a cherished hope to have her with us when her work was done, but it was too good and great a hope for realization here.
Who acts: room, Righteousness · What happens: cherish, be, have, do, work · To what, where: cherished hope, Righteousness, work
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hope | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hope | det |
| 4 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hope | amod |
| 5 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hope | acl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 done | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 done | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 have | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 good | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 good | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 good | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hope | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 great | cc |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 good | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hope | det |
| 25 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 good | nsubj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 realization | case |
| 27 | realization | realization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hope | nmod |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 good | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | room | a cherished hope | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | Righteousness | with us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | Righteousness's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is | past | room | here | a hope for realization nsubj; good property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | room not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | work | Righteousness | nom work «act 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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