Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 58
After five years of earnest, successful work in Chicago, Miss Russell, well fitted by such training, felt that the time had come for her to go to the distant field, which she always had kept in view.
Who acts: time, Russell · What happens: fit, feel, come, go, keep · To what, where: successful work, distant field, view
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 (time, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 earnest | case |
| 5 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 years | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 work | punct |
| 7 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Chicago | case |
| 10 | Chicago | Chicago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 work | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Russell | punct |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Russell | compound |
| 13 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Chicago | list |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fitted | punct |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fitted | advmod |
| 16 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 work | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 training | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 training | amod |
| 19 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fitted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 felt | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 come | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 field | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 field | det |
| 33 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 field | amod |
| 34 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 kept | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 kept | obj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kept | nsubj |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 40 kept | advmod |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 kept | aux |
| 40 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 field | acl:relcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 view | case |
| 42 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 kept | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | participle | successful work in Chicago Miss Russell not said here | by such training; well property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by training=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | year | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | the time | for Russell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | the time not said here | the distant field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | keep | past · perfect | Russell | the distant field | view | always property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in view=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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