Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 62

It is suggestive of some of her loveliest qualities that it has been difficult to secure anything beyond the bare historical facts with regard to her early years.

Who acts: record · What happens: be, secure · To what, where: anything

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), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suggestive	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suggestive	cop
3	suggestive	suggestive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 some	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 suggestive	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 qualities	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 qualities	nmod:poss
8	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 qualities	amod
9	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 some	nmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 difficult	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 difficult	expl
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 difficult	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 difficult	cop
14	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 qualities	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 secure	mark
16	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 difficult	csubj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 secure	obj
18	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	22 facts	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 facts	det
20	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 facts	amod
21	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 facts	amod
22	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 anything	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 regard	case
24	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 facts	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 years	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 years	nmod:poss
27	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 years	amod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 secure	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suggestive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	record			of some of Russell's loveliest qualities; suggestive property	tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	record not said here			difficult property	tree rules
3	secure	to-infinitive		anything	year	beyond the bare historical facts with regard	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anything=Theme

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 62