Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 9

To see all things clearly, to feel her solemn responsibility to every soul that crossed her path, to act with decision and determination in every emergency, was as natural for her as to breathe.

Who acts: soul · What happens: see, feel, cross, act, be, breathe · To what, where: things, solemn responsibility, path, emergency

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 (soul), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 feel	advcl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feel	mark
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 responsibility	nmod:poss
10	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 responsibility	amod
11	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 soul	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 soul	det
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 crossed	nsubj
16	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 soul	acl:relcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 path	nmod:poss
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crossed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 act	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 act	mark
21	act	act	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 decision	case
23	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 act	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 determination	cc
25	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 decision	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 emergency	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 emergency	det
28	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 act	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 natural	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 natural	cop
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 natural	case
32	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 act	parataxis
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 natural	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 breathe	mark
36	to	to	PART	_	37 breathe	mark
37	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 natural	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		all things		clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	feel	to-infinitive		Nellie's solemn responsibility		to every soul	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme
3	cross	past	every soul	Nellie's path			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient
4	act	to-infinitive			every emergency	with decision and determination	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				for Nellie; natural property	tree rules
6	breathe	to-infinitive					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 9