Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 114
Her friends, knowing the purpose and desire of the years, have felt the fulfilling of it by the issue of this little volume, a sacred trust.
Who acts: friends, issue · What happens: know, feel, desire, issue · To what, where: purpose, friends, years, little volume
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 (friends, issue), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knowing | punct |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 friends | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 purpose | det |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knowing | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 desire | cc |
| 8 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 purpose | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 years | det |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 desire | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | aux |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fulfilling | det |
| 16 | fulfilling | fulfilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fulfilling | nmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 issue | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 issue | det |
| 21 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 volume | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 volume | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 volume | amod |
| 25 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 issue | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trust | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trust | det |
| 28 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 trust | amod |
| 29 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 volume | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Russell's friends not said here | the purpose and desire of the years | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer purpose=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | present · perfect · passive | the issue of this little volume and a sacred trust | Russell's friends | the fulfilling of fulfilling obj | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme fulfilling=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | desire | the years | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | issue | this little volume and a sacred trust | nom issue «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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