Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 17
At the close of the session she went to North Bennington, Vermont, where she spent two years in the family of Mrs. Coolidge’s sister, Mrs. H. W. Spafford.
Who acts: sum · What happens: go, spend · To what, where: H. W., North Bennington, close, family
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 close | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 close | det |
| 3 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 session | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 session | det |
| 6 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 close | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Bennington | case |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bennington | compound |
| 11 | Bennington | Bennington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Vermont | punct |
| 13 | Vermont | Vermont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bennington | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spent | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 spent | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spent | nsubj |
| 17 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spent | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 family | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 family | det |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spent | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sister | case |
| 24 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Coolidge | Coolidge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mrs. | flat |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Mrs. | case |
| 27 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 family | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 W. | punct |
| 29 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 H. | compound |
| 30 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 W. | compound |
| 31 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 32 | Spafford | Spafford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 W. | flat |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sum | H. W. | North Bennington | the close of the session | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bennington=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | spend | past | sum | the family of Mrs.'s sister | year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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