Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 55
Miss Russell’s great characteristics were, I think, the giving of herself unsparingly for others, and doing this with sympathy, tenderness, and love.
Who acts: great characteristics · What happens: be, give, do · To what, where: this
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 (great characteristics), 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 | 5 characteristics | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Russell | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 characteristics | amod |
| 5 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 think | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giving | det |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 think | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 giving | obl |
| 15 | unsparingly | unsparingly | ADV | _ | 12 giving | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 giving | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 doing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 doing | cc |
| 20 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 giving | conj |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 doing | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sympathy | case |
| 23 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 doing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tenderness | punct |
| 25 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sympathy | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 love | cc |
| 28 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Miss Russell's great characteristics | love obl; I nsubj; think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | Miss Russell's great characteristics not said here | of Russell; for others; unsparingly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for other=Asset | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Miss Russell's great characteristics not said here | this | with sympathy and tenderness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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