Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 7
As a result of this intimate acquaintance we learned to look upon her as an unique and even wonderful woman.
Who acts: we · What happens: learn, look, result · To what, where: intimate acquaintance
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 acquaintance | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 acquaintance | det |
| 6 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 acquaintance | amod |
| 7 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 result | nmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 learned | nsubj |
| 9 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 learned | xcomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 16 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wonderful | cc |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 wonderful | advmod |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 unique | conj |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | we | as a result of this intimate acquaintance | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | we not said here | upon Nellie; as a unique woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | result | this intimate acquaintance | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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