Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 115
The first thought was to do the editing which she planned, but every attempt seemed to take from the stories that which made them hers.
Who acts: first thought, editing, attempt, stories · What happens: be, plan, seem, take, make · To what, where: stories
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 (first thought, editing, attempt, stories), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 editing | det |
| 8 | editing | editing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 planned | nsubj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 planned | nsubj |
| 11 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 editing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 seemed | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 attempt | det |
| 15 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 stories | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stories | det |
| 21 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 made | nsubj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stories | acl:relcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first thought | the editing obj; do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plan | past | the editing | Russell nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | every attempt | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | every attempt not said here | the stories | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from story=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | make | past | the stories | stories = story | Russell obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary her=Product |
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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