Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 40
Our custom was to select a street and to call from house to house, from family to family.
Who acts: custom · What happens: be, call · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (custom), 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 custom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 select | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 select | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 select | mark |
| 5 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 select | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 call | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 call | mark |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 select | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 family | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 family | case |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 family | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 select | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our custom | a street obj; select property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | Our custom not said here | house | to house; from family to family | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to house=Recipient |
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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