Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 38
We also visited the sick and helped such as were in need in the neighbourhood.
Who acts: We · What happens: visit, help, be · To what, where: sick, neighbourhood
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 visited | advmod |
| 3 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sick | det |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 visited | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 helped | cc |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 visited | conj |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 need | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 need | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 need | case |
| 12 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 neighbourhood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neighbourhood | det |
| 15 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | We | the sick | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sick=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | past | We not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the neighbourhood | such need | tree rules |
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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