Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 100
It was sure to be daintily clean, for, whatever her surroundings, she was a lady always and everywhere and tidiness was a part of herself.
Who acts: It, Russell, lady · What happens: be · To what, where: lady, part
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, 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 (It, Russell, lady), 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 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 clean | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 clean | cop |
| 6 | daintily | daintily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clean | amod |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whatever | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 whatever | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 for | punct |
| 11 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 whatever | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lady | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lady | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lady | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 lady | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 everywhere | cc |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 always | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tidiness | cc |
| 23 | tidiness | tidiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lady | conj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 part | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 herself | case |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 part | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | whatever Russell's surroundings parataxis; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | clean property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Russell | a lady and tidiness | tidiness conj; always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | a lady and tidiness | a part | of Russell | 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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