Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 5
The family removed to Wisconsin when she was very young, and there her father died when she was about eight years of age.
Who acts: family, father, Nellie · What happens: remove, be, die · To what, where: family, Wisconsin, eight years
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 (family, father, Nellie), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 young | nsubj |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 family | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Wisconsin | case |
| 5 | Wisconsin | Wisconsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 removed | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 young | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 young | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 young | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 young | advmod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 died | expl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 young | conj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 years | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 years | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 years | cop |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 eight | advmod |
| 21 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 died | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 age | case |
| 24 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | participle | the family not said here | Wisconsin | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wisconsin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the family | Nellie nsubj; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | past | Nellie's father | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Nellie | eight years | of age | tree rules |
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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