Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 26
It is to this friendship that we are indebted for the few details of the years between her entrance into the seminary and going to China.
Who acts: friendship · What happens: be, indebt, go, detail · To what, where: we, seminary, China, years
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 (friendship), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 friendship | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friendship | cop |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 friendship | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 friendship | det |
| 5 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 indebted | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 indebted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 indebted | aux:pass |
| 9 | indebted | indebt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 friendship | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 details | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 details | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 details | amod |
| 13 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 indebted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 years | det |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 details | nmod |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 entrance | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 years | nmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 seminary | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 seminary | det |
| 22 | seminary | seminary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indebted | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 going | cc |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 seminary | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 China | case |
| 26 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 going | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friendship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | friendship | to this friendship | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | indebt | present · passive | we | the seminary | for the few details of the years between sum's entrance | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | China | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to china=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | detail | the years between sum's entrance | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=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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