Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 48

Miss Russell wrote to Mr. Moody with regard to them and asked if an arrangement could be made by which the most promising could be admitted to Mt.

Who acts: Miss Russell · What happens: write, ask, make, promise, admit · To what, where: Moody, arrangement, Mt

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 (Miss Russell), 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	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Russell	compound
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Moody	case
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Moody	nmod:desc
6	Moody	Moody	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 regard	case
8	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 regard	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 arrangement	det
15	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj:pass
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 asked	ccomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 admitted	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 promising	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 promising	advmod
23	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 admitted	nsubj:pass
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 admitted	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 admitted	aux:pass
26	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 made	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Mt	case
28	Mt	Mt	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 admitted	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	Miss Russell		Moody Mr.	with regard to carpentry	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to moody=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Miss Russell not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		a arrangement			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	promise speech: promise	gerund					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	admit speech: other	could · passive			Mt	which obl	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by which=Location

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 48

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 48