Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 35
But Mr. Moody felt confident of the results and assured us that we could do it, and so we made the venture.
Who acts: Moody, we · What happens: feel, assure, do, make · To what, where: us, city, venture
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 (Moody, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Moody | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Moody | Moody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 results | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 results | det |
| 8 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confident | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 assured | cc |
| 10 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 assured | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 assured | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 made | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 venture | det |
| 23 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Moody Mr. | confident property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | assure | past | Moody Mr. not said here | us | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | could | we | city | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | past | we | the venture | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Product |
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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