Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 56
One incident, among many which I recall, strikingly illustrates this.
Who acts: One incident · What happens: recall, illustrate · 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 (One incident), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 incident | nummod |
| 2 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recall | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 recall | punct |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 which | amod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 recall | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 recall | nsubj |
| 8 | recall | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 illustrates | punct |
| 10 | strikingly | strikingly | ADV | _ | 11 illustrates | advmod |
| 11 | illustrates | illustrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recall | conj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 illustrates | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 recall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | present | One incident | which obl; I nsubj | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | illustrate | present | One incident not said here | this | strikingly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Destination |
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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