Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 53
They were accompanied all the way upward by the sympathy, advice, and assistance of Miss Russell.
Who acts: sympathy · What happens: accompany, assist · To what, where: courses, Miss
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 (sympathy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 accompanied | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 way | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 3 accompanied | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sympathy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sympathy | det |
| 10 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 advice | punct |
| 12 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sympathy | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 assistance | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 assistance | cc |
| 15 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Miss | case |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 assistance | nmod |
| 18 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Miss | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past · passive | the sympathy and advice | courses = course | all way obl:unmarked; assistance of Miss parataxis; upward property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | assist | Miss | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=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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