Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 39
Our Sunday-school work was among the very poor, and in localities where we went with not a little trepidation.
Who acts: Sunday school work, we, Our · What happens: be, go, work · To what, where: localities
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 (Sunday school work, we, 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 | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sunday | punct |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | compound |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poor | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 poor | cop |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 poor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poor | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 poor | advmod |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 localities | case |
| 14 | localities | locality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 poor | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 trepidation | case |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 trepidation | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trepidation | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trepidation | amod |
| 22 | trepidation | trepidation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our Sunday school work | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | we | localities | with a little trepidation | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with trepidation=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | work | Our | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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