Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 19
In order that she might get the education requisite for it she toiled and saved until she was able to enter Northfield Seminary, which had just been founded by Mr. D. L. Moody.
Who acts: sum, education requisite, D. · What happens: get, toil, save, be, enter, found · To what, where: order, Northfield
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, education requisite, D.), 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 | _ | 2 order | case |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 requisite | det |
| 8 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 requisite | compound |
| 9 | requisite | requisite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 toiled | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 requisite | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 toiled | nsubj |
| 13 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saved | cc |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 toiled | conj |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 able | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 able | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | cop |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saved | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 enter | mark |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 22 | Northfield | Northfield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 enter | obj |
| 23 | Seminary | Seminary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Northfield | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 founded | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 founded | aux |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 founded | advmod |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 founded | aux:pass |
| 29 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Northfield | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 D. | case |
| 31 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 D. | nmod:desc |
| 32 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 founded | obl:agent |
| 33 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 D. | flat |
| 34 | Moody | Moody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 D. | flat |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | might | sum | order | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | toil | past | the education requisite for order | sum nsubj | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | past | the education requisite for order not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | sum | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | sum not said here | Northfield | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme northfield=Destination | ||||
| 6 | found | past · perfect · passive | D. Mr. | Northfield | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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