Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 107

She asked many questions as he went on and her pencil jotted down names and a point here and there, that when he was gone she might write out a skeleton, with the hope of using the material some time to help friends in America to a better understanding of these neighbours of ours on the other side of “The Great Eastern Sea” for “Eastern” the Pacific is to China and so her people name it.

Who acts: Russell, hair, pencil, that, hope, people · What happens: ask, go on, jot down, be, write out, use · To what, where: many questions, names, skeleton, material, friends, America

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, pencil, that), 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	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 questions	amod
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	advcl
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jotted	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pencil	nmod:poss
11	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jotted	nsubj
12	jotted	jot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 jotted	compound:prt
14	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 jotted	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 point	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 point	det
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 names	conj
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 jotted	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 there	cc
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 here	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 gone	nsubj
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 gone	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gone	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
26	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asked	parataxis
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 write	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 write	aux
29	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gone	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 write	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 skeleton	det
32	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 write	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hope	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 hope	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hope	det
36	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 write	obl
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 using	mark
38	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 hope	acl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 material	det
40	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 using	obj
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 time	det
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 using	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 help	mark
44	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 time	acl
45	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 help	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 America	case
47	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 help	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	51 understanding	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 understanding	det
50	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 understanding	amod
51	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 help	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 neighbours	case
53	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 neighbours	det
54	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 understanding	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 ours	case
56	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 neighbours	nmod
57	on	on	ADP	_	60 side	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 side	det
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 side	amod
60	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 understanding	nmod
61	of	of	ADP	_	66 Sea	case
62	“	"	PUNCT	_	66 Sea	punct
63	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Sea	det
64	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 Sea	amod
65	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 Sea	compound
66	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 side	nmod
67	”	"	PUNCT	_	66 Sea	punct
68	for	for	ADP	_	70 Eastern	case
69	“	"	PUNCT	_	70 Eastern	punct
70	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 side	acl:relcl
71	”	"	PUNCT	_	70 Eastern	punct
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 Pacific	det
73	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 Eastern	appos
74	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	76 China	cop
75	to	to	ADP	_	76 China	case
76	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 Pacific	nmod
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 name	cc
78	so	so	ADV	_	81 name	advmod
79	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	80 people	nmod:poss
80	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 name	nsubj
81	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
82	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 name	obj
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Russell	many questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	go on	past	hair						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jot down	participle	Russell's pencil	names and a point		here; there			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	is	past	that					hair nsubj; gone property	tree rules
5	write out	might	Russell	a skeleton				with the hope	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Theme
6	use	gerund	the hope not said here	the material			time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient
7	help	to-infinitive	the hope not said here		friends	America		to a better understanding of this neighbours of ours on the other side of the Great Eastern Sea	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary
8	is	present						to China	tree rules
9	name	present	Russell's people	friend					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	understand			this neighbours of ours		the other side of the Great Eastern Sea			nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient on=place

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, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 107

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 107