Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 68
Her warmth of affection for her own was apparent in every mention of them, and knowing this, one can realize what separation from them, even in childhood, meant to her.
Who acts: warmth, one, childhood · What happens: be, know, realize, separation, mean, mention · To what, where: mention, this, childhood, Russell, experiences · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (warmth, one, childhood), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 warmth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 apparent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 affection | case |
| 4 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warmth | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 own | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 affection | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 apparent | cop |
| 9 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mention | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 mention | det |
| 12 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 apparent | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mention | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knowing | cc |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 apparent | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 knowing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 realize | punct |
| 20 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 realize | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 realize | aux |
| 22 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 apparent | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 separation | nsubj |
| 24 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 realize | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 realize | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 childhood | punct |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 childhood | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 childhood | case |
| 30 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 realize | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 meant | punct |
| 32 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 childhood | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 meant | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 apparent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Russell's warmth of affection for Russell's own | every mention of experiences | apparent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | Russell's warmth of affection for Russell's own not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | realize | can | one | childhood | from experiences = experience | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | separation | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | mean | past | childhood not said here | Russell | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to she=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | mention | experiences = experience | nom mention «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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