Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 47
Some showed unusual talent, but had no opportunity for study or advancement.
Who acts: Some · What happens: show, have · To what, where: unusual talent, opportunity
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 talent | amod |
| 4 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 opportunity | det |
| 9 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 study | case |
| 11 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opportunity | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 advancement | cc |
| 13 | advancement | advancement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 study | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Some | unusual talent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent talent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Some not said here | no opportunity | for study or advancement | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=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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