Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 24
She has ever been and ever more must be a pure, inspiring presence in our lives.
Who acts: Righteousness · What happens: be · To what, where: more pure inspiring presence, lives
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 been | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 been | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 presence | cc |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 presence | amod |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 presence | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 presence | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 presence | det |
| 11 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 presence | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pure | punct |
| 13 | inspiring | inspiring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 presence | amod |
| 14 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 been | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lives | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lives | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 presence | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present · perfect | Righteousness | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | Righteousness not said here | a more pure inspiring presence | our lives | ever | 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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