Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 43
In this way we gathered the children into Sunday-school, the boys into Miss Russell’s class and the girls into mine.
Who acts: we · What happens: gather · To what, where: children
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mine | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gathered | nsubj |
| 5 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 way | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gathered | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 9 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 school | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sunday | punct |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 children | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boys | det |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mine | nsubj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 class | case |
| 16 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Russell | compound |
| 17 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 class | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Russell | case |
| 19 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boys | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 girls | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girls | det |
| 22 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 boys | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 mine | case |
| 24 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 mine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | we | the children | into Sunday school | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent child=Patient into school=Co-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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