Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 63
The brief outline, given by the only sister who survives her, Mrs. J. R. Branaman, and a lifelong friend, Mrs. D. F.
Who acts: only sister · What happens: give, survive · To what, where: brief outline, Russell
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 (only sister), 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 | 3 outline | det |
| 2 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 outline | amod |
| 3 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 outline | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 survives | nsubj |
| 11 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sister | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 survives | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 R. | punct |
| 14 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 R. | compound |
| 15 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mrs. | flat |
| 16 | R. | R. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 outline | appos |
| 17 | Branaman | Branaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 R. | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 friend | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 friend | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 friend | det |
| 21 | lifelong | lifelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friend | amod |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 outline | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Mrs. | punct |
| 24 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 friend | appos |
| 25 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 F | compound |
| 26 | F | F | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mrs. | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 outline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | the brief outline and a lifelong friend not said here | by the only sister | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | survive | present | the only sister | Russell | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Circumstance |
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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