Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 6
For four years she was an inmate of our home and, during all her remarkable career as a missionary in China, we kept in the closest possible touch with her and her work.
Who acts: Nellie, we · What happens: be, keep, work · To what, where: inmate, closest possible touch
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 (Nellie, we), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kept | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 inmate | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 inmate | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 inmate | det |
| 7 | inmate | inmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inmate | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 career | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 career | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 career | det:predet |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 career | nmod:poss |
| 16 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 career | amod |
| 17 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inmate | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 missionary | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 missionary | det |
| 20 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 career | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 China | case |
| 22 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 missionary | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 kept | nsubj |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 touch | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 touch | det |
| 28 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 touch | amod |
| 29 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 touch | amod |
| 30 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kept | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 touch | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 work | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 work | nmod:poss |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 her | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nellie | a inmate and Nellie's remarkable career as a missionary in China | of our home; Nellie's remarkable career as a missionary in China conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | past | we | the closest possible touch with Nellie | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location | |||
| 3 | work | Nellie | 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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