Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 61

The record of the rare life of Miss Russell is in the hearts of many to whom she was very dear.

Who acts: record, Russell · What happens: be, record · To what, where: hearts, rare life

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 (record, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 record	det
2	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hearts	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 life	det
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 record	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Russell	case
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Russell	compound
9	Russell	Russell	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 life	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hearts	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hearts	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hearts	det
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 whom	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 whom	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hearts	acl:relcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dear	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dear	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 dear	advmod
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 whom	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hearts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the record of the rare life of Miss Russell		the hearts	whom acl:relcl	tree rules
2	is	past	Russell			dear property	tree rules
3	record			the rare life of Miss Russell			nom record «communication 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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 61