Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 4
But to meet a man or woman having all is as moving as it is uncommon.
Who acts: man, Pastor · What happens: meet, have, move, be · To what, where: all
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 (man, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 meet | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 meet | mark |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moving | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 woman | cc |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 man | acl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 having | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 moving | aux |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 moving | mark |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 meet | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 uncommon | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uncommon | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 uncommon | cop |
| 16 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moving | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | to-infinitive | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a man or woman not said here | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | present · progressive | a man or woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Pastor | uncommon property | 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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