Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 113

There were no farewells, no last expressions of a wish that this or that should be done, before she passed into the unconsciousness from which she never wakened here.

Who acts: farewells, Russell · What happens: be, do, pass, not waken · To what, where: wish, unconsciousness

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 (farewells, Russell), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 farewells	det
4	farewells	farewell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 expressions	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 expressions	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 expressions	amod
8	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 farewells	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wish	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wish	det
11	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expressions	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 done	obj
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 that	appos
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 done	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 done	nsubj:pass
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 done	aux:pass
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wish	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 passed	punct
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 passed	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 passed	nsubj
22	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 unconsciousness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 unconsciousness	det
25	unconsciousness	unconsciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passed	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wakened	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wakened	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 wakened	advmod
30	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 unconsciousness	acl:relcl
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 wakened	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	no farewells and no last expressions of a wish		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	should · passive		a wish		tree rules
3	pass	past	Russell		the unconsciousness	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into unconsciousness=Initial_Location
4	not waken	past	Russell		the unconsciousness; here	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 113

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 113