Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 66
In years of close companionship I learned little of them beyond the ever-recurring suggestion of her rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith and a mother brave and tender, with the highest standards of duty.
Who acts: I, rich inheritance, Russell · What happens: learn, recur, suggest, inherit · To what, where: little
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 (I, rich inheritance, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 years | case |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 learned | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 companionship | case |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 companionship | amod |
| 5 | companionship | companionship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learned | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 learned | nsubj |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 learned | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 little | nmod |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 16 suggestion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 suggestion | det |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 recurring | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ever | punct |
| 15 | recurring | recur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 suggestion | amod |
| 16 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learned | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 inheritance | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 inheritance | amod |
| 20 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suggestion | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 father | det |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inheritance | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 faith | case |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 faith | amod |
| 26 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 faith | amod |
| 27 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 mother | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mother | det |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suggestion | conj |
| 31 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mother | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tender | cc |
| 33 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brave | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 standards | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 standards | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 standards | det |
| 37 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 standards | amod |
| 38 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 learned | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 duty | case |
| 40 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 standards | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | I | little of experiences | year | of close companionship; beyond the recurring suggestion of Russell's rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith and a mother; with the highest standards of duty | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||
| 2 | recur | gerund | ever | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suggest | Russell's rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | inherit | Russell | from a father of deep religious faith | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent from=obl |
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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