Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 117
The pages have, therefore, been left with only such alterations as were necessary to complete sentences or make meaning clear, with no attempt at such improvement of literary style as she herself would have given them.
Who acts: pages, literary style · What happens: have, leave, be, complete, make, mean · To what, where: sentences, page
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 (pages, literary style), 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 | 2 pages | det |
| 2 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 alterations | case |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 alterations | advmod |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 alterations | amod |
| 12 | alterations | alteration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 necessary | mark |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 necessary | cop |
| 15 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 alterations | amod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 complete | mark |
| 17 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 necessary | csubj |
| 18 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 complete | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 complete | conj |
| 21 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meaning | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 attempt | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 attempt | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 attempt | det |
| 26 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 improvement | case |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 improvement | amod |
| 29 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attempt | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 style | case |
| 31 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 style | amod |
| 32 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 improvement | nmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 given | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 given | nsubj |
| 35 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 given | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 given | aux |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 given | aux |
| 38 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 left | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 given | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the pages | therefore property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle · passive | with such alterations; with no attempt at such improvement of literary style | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with alteration=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | complete | to-infinitive | sentences | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 6 | mean | gerund | clear property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | give | would · perfect · passive | page | sentences = sentence obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme | ||||
| 8 | improve | literary style | nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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