Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 122
To this has been added Mrs. Ament’s account of the funeral services in Peking.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: add, account · To what, where: this, funeral services
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 (Mrs.), 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 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 added | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 added | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 added | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 added | aux:pass |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Ament | Ament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mrs. | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Mrs. | case |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 services | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 services | det |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 services | compound |
| 13 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 account | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Peking | case |
| 15 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 services | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | this | Mrs.'s account of the funeral services in Peking obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | account | Mrs. | the funeral services in Peking | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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