Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 106
She was very weary and how tempting a quiet evening by herself, or with only her dear Bible woman helper as companion, must have seemed, but she had the engagement with this teacher or that Christian brother to listen to his tale.
Who acts: Russell, hair · What happens: be, tempt, have, seem, listen, tell · To what, where: engagement · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Russell, hair), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 weary | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weary | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 weary | advmod |
| 4 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tempting | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 tempting | advmod |
| 7 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 weary | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 evening | amod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tempting | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 tempting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 helper | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 helper | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 helper | case |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 helper | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 helper | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 helper | amod |
| 19 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 woman | compound |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 helper | compound |
| 21 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weary | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 companion | case |
| 23 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 helper | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 helper | conj |
| 27 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weary | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 engagement | det |
| 33 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 teacher | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 teacher | det |
| 36 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 engagement | nmod |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 brother | cc |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 brother | mark |
| 39 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 brother | amod |
| 40 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 teacher | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 listen | mark |
| 42 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 brother | acl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 tale | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 tale | nmod:poss |
| 45 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 listen | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Russell | Russell's dear woman helper as companion parataxis; weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tempt | gerund | Russell not said here | evening | by Russell | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | have | must | Russell not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | Russell not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Russell | the engagement | with this teacher or Christian brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient | |||
| 6 | listen | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | to hair's tale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell | hair | nom tale «communication 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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