Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 118

They are issued for the sake of the many who loved her and who will prize them as coming from her hands, and as representing one of the activities of her many-sided life.

Who acts: sake · What happens: issue, love, prize, come, represent · To what, where: sentences, page, hands, one

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 (sake), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 issued	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 issued	aux:pass
3	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sake	det
6	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 many	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 many	det
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sake	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sake	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 prize	cc
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 prize	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 prize	aux
16	prize	prize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 loved	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prize	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 coming	mark
19	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 prize	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 coming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 representing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 representing	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 representing	mark
26	representing	represent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 issued	advcl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 representing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 activities	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 activities	det
30	activities	activity	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 life	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 life	nmod:poss
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sided	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 many	punct
35	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 life	amod
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 activities	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 issued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	issue	present · passive		sentences = sentence		for the sake of the many	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for sake=Recipient
2	love	past	the sake of the many	page			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	prize	future		sentences = sentence		who nsubj	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	come	gerund			page's hands		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
5	represent	gerund		one of the activities of page's sided life			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

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 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 118