Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 123
Miss Russell died at the summer resting-place, Pei Tai Ho; from thence the casket was taken by rail to the city, an eight-hour journey.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: die, take · To what, where: summer resting place, casket, city
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 (Miss), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 died | nsubj |
| 2 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 7 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 resting | punct |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pei | punct |
| 11 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 place | appos |
| 12 | Tai | Tai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pei | flat |
| 13 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pei | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 thence | case |
| 16 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 20 taken | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 casket | det |
| 18 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 died | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 rail | case |
| 22 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 journey | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 journey | det |
| 28 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 hour | nummod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 eight | punct |
| 30 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 journey | compound |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 city | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Miss | the summer resting place | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the casket | the city and a hour journey | by rail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from thence=Initial_Location to city=Destination |
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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