Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 4
Nellie Naomi Russell was born in Ontonagon, Michigan, March 31, 1862.
What happens: bear · To what, where: Nellie, Ontonagon
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: 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 | Nellie | Nellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Naomi | Naomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nellie | flat |
| 3 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nellie | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ontonagon | case |
| 7 | Ontonagon | Ontonagon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 born | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Michigan | punct |
| 9 | Michigan | Michigan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ontonagon | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 31 | punct |
| 11 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 31 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Ontonagon | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 31 | punct |
| 14 | 1862 | 1862 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 31 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Nellie | Ontonagon 31 March 1862 and Michigan | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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