Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 124
The desire of the women, that the monument at her grave should have a Chinese as well as English inscription, has been carried out.
Who acts: monument · What happens: have, carry out, desire · To what, where: Chinese inscription, desire, women
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 (monument), 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 desire | det |
| 2 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 women | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 women | det |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 desire | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 monument | det |
| 9 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grave | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 monument | nmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 inscription | det |
| 16 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 inscription | amod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 20 English | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 20 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Chinese | conj |
| 21 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 carried | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 carried | aux:pass |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 carried | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | the monument at monument's grave | a Chinese inscription | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry out | present · perfect · passive | the desire of the women | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | desire | the women | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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