Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 116
Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression were her very own.
Who acts: Characteristic phrases · What happens: be
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 (Characteristic phrases), 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 | Characteristic | Characteristic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 phrases | compound |
| 2 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 own | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turns | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turns | amod |
| 5 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 phrases | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 expression | case |
| 7 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 own | cop |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 own | nmod:poss |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 own | advmod |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression | Russell nmod:poss; own property | tree rules |
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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