Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 15
The sum advanced to her was returned from her first earnings with the scrupulous integrity which, throughout her life, marked all her business dealings.
Who acts: sum · What happens: advance, return, mark, deal · To what, where: sum, first earnings, business dealings
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 (sum), 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 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advanced | nsubj |
| 3 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 returned | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | aux:pass |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 advanced | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 earnings | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 earnings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 earnings | amod |
| 11 | earnings | earning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 returned | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 integrity | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 integrity | det |
| 14 | scrupulous | scrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 integrity | amod |
| 15 | integrity | integrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earnings | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 returned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 which | punct |
| 18 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 which | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 marked | punct |
| 22 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advanced | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 dealings | det:predet |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dealings | nmod:poss |
| 25 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dealings | compound |
| 26 | dealings | dealing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 marked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | the sum | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past · passive | the sum not said here | sum | sum's first earnings with the scrupulous integrity | which throughout sum's life obl | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: to she=Result from earning=Initial_State | ||
| 3 | mark | past | the sum not said here | sum's business dealings | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dealing=Destination | ||||
| 4 | deal | sum | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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