Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 6

She was the second of four children whom the widowed mother took to Vermont to live with one of their uncles.

Who acts: Nellie, widowed mother · What happens: be, widow, take, live · To what, where: four children, Vermont

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 (Nellie, widowed mother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 second	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 second	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 second	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 second	obl
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 took	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
10	widowed	widow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 children	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Vermont	case
14	Vermont	Vermont	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 live	mark
16	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 took	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 live	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 uncles	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 uncles	nmod:poss
21	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 second	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nellie			of four children; second property	tree rules
2	widow	participle					vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	the widowed mother	four children	Vermont		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to vermont=Destination
4	live	to-infinitive	the widowed mother not said here			with one of children's uncles	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with one=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 6