Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 67
These so impressed her daughter that, in incidental ways, they were often implied in the reasons given for her choice of lines of conduct.
Who acts: reasons · What happens: imply, give · To what, where: experiences, reasons, impressed daughter
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 (reasons), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 daughter | det |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 impressed | advmod |
| 3 | impressed | impressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | amod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ways | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ways | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 9 | incidental | incidental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ways | amod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 implied | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 implied | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 implied | aux:pass |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 implied | advmod |
| 15 | implied | imply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ways | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 reasons | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reasons | det |
| 18 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 implied | obl:agent |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 reasons | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 choice | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 choice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lines | case |
| 24 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 choice | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 conduct | case |
| 26 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lines | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ways | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imply | past · passive | the reasons | experiences = experience | often property | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | participle | the reasons not said here | for Russell's choice of lines of conduct | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for choice=Asset |
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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