Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 2
The enduring charm of a rich personality is ever found to be in devotion to a chosen cause.
What happens: find, be, choose · To what, where: enduring charm, devotion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 charm | det |
| 2 | enduring | enduring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 charm | amod |
| 3 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 personality | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 personality | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 personality | amod |
| 7 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charm | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 found | advmod |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 devotion | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 devotion | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 devotion | case |
| 14 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 cause | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cause | det |
| 17 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cause | amod |
| 18 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devotion | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | the enduring charm of a rich personality | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | devotion | to a chosen cause | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «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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