Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 36
Our experiences the first winter were strangely new and varied.
Who acts: experiences, Our · What happens: be, experience
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 (experiences, Our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 experiences | nmod:poss |
| 2 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 new | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 winter | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 winter | amod |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 experiences | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 new | cop |
| 7 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 8 new | advmod |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 varied | cc |
| 10 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 new | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our experiences the first winter | new, strangely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Our experiences the first winter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | experience | Our | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=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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