Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 34

It seemed a large undertaking for two inexperienced young women to go from the little village of Northfield to the great city of Chicago, and to engage in such a work.

Who acts: It · What happens: seem, undertake, go, engage · To what, where: little village, work

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 (It), 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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 large	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
5	undertaking	undertake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 large	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 women	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 women	nummod
8	inexperienced	inexperienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 women	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 women	amod
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 undertaking	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 undertaking	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 village	amod
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Northfield	case
18	Northfield	Northfield	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 village	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 city	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 city	amod
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Chicago	case
24	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 city	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 engage	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 engage	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 engage	mark
28	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 work	case
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 work	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 work	det
32	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 engage	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		large property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	undertake	gerund			for two inexperienced young women	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	go	to-infinitive		the little village of Northfield	to the great city of Chicago	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from village=Initial_Location to city=Destination
4	engage	to-infinitive			in such work goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in work=Goal

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 34