Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 59
The way was opened for her to enter the work in China under the Woman’s Board of the Interior in connection with the American Board of Foreign Missions.
What happens: open, enter · To what, where: way, work, China
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: 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 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 enter | mark |
| 8 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enter | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 China | case |
| 12 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 enter | obl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 Board | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Woman | det |
| 15 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Board | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Woman | case |
| 17 | Board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enter | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Interior | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Interior | det |
| 20 | Interior | Interior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Board | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 connection | case |
| 22 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enter | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Board | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Board | det |
| 25 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Board | amod |
| 26 | Board | Board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 connection | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Missions | case |
| 28 | Foreign | Foreign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Missions | compound |
| 29 | Missions | mission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Board | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the way | for Russell | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | the work | China | under the Woman's Board of the Interior; in connection with the American Board of Foreign Missions | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=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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