Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 3
It is common enough to find persons endowed with one, two, or even three of those four great elemental qualities out of which the noblest souls are made—an inviolable conscience, profound intellect, irresistible will, and illimitable affections.
Who acts: Pastor · What happens: be, find, endow, make · To what, where: persons, noblest souls, four great elemental qualities
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 (Pastor), 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 | 3 common | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 common | cop |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 common | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 common | advcl |
| 7 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 persons | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 endowed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 two | punct |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 one | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 three | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 three | advmod |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 common | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 qualities | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 qualities | det |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 qualities | nummod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 qualities | amod |
| 21 | elemental | elemental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 qualities | amod |
| 22 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 three | nmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 made | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 souls | det |
| 27 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 souls | amod |
| 28 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | aux:pass |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 conscience | punct |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 conscience | det |
| 33 | inviolable | inviolable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 conscience | amod |
| 34 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 will | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 intellect | punct |
| 36 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 intellect | amod |
| 37 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 conscience | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 irresistible | punct |
| 39 | irresistible | irresistible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 conscience | conj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 affections | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 affections | cc |
| 43 | illimitable | illimitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 affections | amod |
| 44 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 common | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Pastor | three of that four great elemental qualities obl; illimitable affections obl; common, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Pastor not said here | persons | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | ||||
| 3 | endow | participle | persons not said here | with one | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present · passive | the noblest souls | that four great elemental qualities | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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