Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 109

It had been her cherished plan to edit them carefully, add to them other stories of Chinese life as she had seen it, and make a volume which should be the contribution of her leisure, after retirement from active work, to the new understanding of the people whom she loved by those of her own land.

Who acts: pencil, Russell, volume · What happens: cherish, be, edit, add, see, make · To what, where: cherished plan, manuscripts, other stories, pencil, volume, contribution

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 (pencil, Russell, volume), 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	6 plan	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plan	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 plan	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plan	nmod:poss
5	cherished	cherish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 plan	amod
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 edit	mark
8	edit	edit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plan	acl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 edit	obj
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 edit	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 add	punct
12	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 edit	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 add	obl
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stories	amod
16	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 add	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 life	case
18	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 life	amod
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stories	nmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 seen	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 add	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 make	cc
27	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 plan	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 volume	det
29	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 contribution	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 contribution	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 contribution	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 contribution	det
34	contribution	contribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 volume	acl:relcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 leisure	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 leisure	nmod:poss
37	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 contribution	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 retirement	punct
39	after	after	ADP	_	40 retirement	case
40	retirement	retirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 work	case
42	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 work	amod
43	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 retirement	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 understanding	punct
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 understanding	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 understanding	det
47	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 understanding	amod
48	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 people	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 people	det
51	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 understanding	nmod
52	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 loved	obj
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 loved	nsubj
54	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 people	acl:relcl
55	by	by	ADP	_	56 those	case
56	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 loved	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 land	case
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 land	nmod:poss
59	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 land	amod
60	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 those	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plan	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cherish	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past · perfect	pencil	Russell's cherished plan		Russell nmod:poss	tree rules
3	edit	to-infinitive		manuscripts = manuscript		carefully property	tree rules
4	add speech: assert	infinitive		other stories of Chinese life	manuscripts = manuscript		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient to they=Co-Patient
5	see	past · perfect	Russell	pencil			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	make	infinitive		a volume		retirement from active work conj; the new understanding of the people conj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset volume=Product
7	is a	should	a volume	the contribution		of Russell's leisure	tree rules
8	love	past	Russell	the people		by the people	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
9	understand			the people			nom understanding «cognition 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 109

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 109