Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 60

She accepted the opportunity as the fruition of the hope and desire of childhood, girlhood, and young womanhood, and in twenty-one years of devoted service made “good proof of her ministry.”

Who acts: way, hope · What happens: accept, make, fruit, desire, proof · To what, where: opportunity, devoted service, childhood, ministry

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 (way, hope), 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	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 opportunity	det
4	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 fruition	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruition	det
7	fruition	fruition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opportunity	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hope	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hope	det
10	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruition	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 desire	cc
12	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hope	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 childhood	case
14	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desire	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 girlhood	punct
16	girlhood	girlhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruition	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 womanhood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 womanhood	cc
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 womanhood	amod
20	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 years	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 years	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 years	case
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 one	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 twenty	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 years	nummod
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 accepted	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 service	case
29	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 service	amod
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 years	nmod
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 service	acl
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 proof	punct
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 proof	amod
34	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 ministry	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 ministry	nmod:poss
37	ministry	ministry	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 proof	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 years	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	way	the opportunity	as the fruition of the hope and desire of childhood and girlhood; young womanhood parataxis	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme as fruition=Attribute
2	make	participle		devoted service not said here	good proof of way's ministry parataxis	tree rules
3	fruit		the hope and desire of childhood			nom fruition «state intransitive»: of=agent
4	desire			childhood		nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	proof in a quote			way's ministry		nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 60