Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 14
In the autumn of the year 1879, Nellie, although so young, taught a country school, boarding around from house to house, as was the custom at that time.
What happens: teach, board around, be · To what, where: country school, house
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 autumn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 autumn | det |
| 3 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taught | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 autumn | nmod |
| 7 | 1879 | 1879 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 year | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nellie | punct |
| 9 | Nellie | Nellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 autumn | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 young | punct |
| 11 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 young | mark |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 young | advmod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Nellie | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 autumn | punct |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 school | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 school | compound |
| 18 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taught | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 boarding | punct |
| 20 | boarding | board | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 taught | advcl |
| 21 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 boarding | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boarding | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 custom | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 custom | case |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 custom | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 custom | det |
| 30 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taught | parataxis |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 custom | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | a country school | autumn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | board around | gerund | house to house | around property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | time | as the custom | tree rules |
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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