Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 69
She truly “Bore the yoke in her youth” and learned to carry it so buoyantly, and walk under it with such elasticity of spirit, that one’s memory of her is always that of largeness and joy rather than of mere patience or resignation.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: bear, learn, carry, walk, be · To what, where: yoke, youth, memory
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Bore | nsubj |
| 2 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 Bore | advmod |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bore | punct |
| 4 | Bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 yoke | det |
| 6 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bore | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 youth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bore | obl |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 youth | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learned | cc |
| 12 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Bore | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learned | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 buoyantly | advmod |
| 17 | buoyantly | buoyantly | ADV | _ | 14 carry | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walk | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walk | cc |
| 20 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Bore | advcl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walk | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 elasticity | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 elasticity | amod |
| 25 | elasticity | elasticity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walk | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 spirit | case |
| 27 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 elasticity | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 memory | punct |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 memory | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 one | case |
| 32 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walk | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 that | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 that | nmod:poss |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 that | cop |
| 36 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 37 that | advmod |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 memory | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 largeness | case |
| 39 | largeness | largeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 that | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 joy | cc |
| 41 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 largeness | conj |
| 42 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 46 patience | cc |
| 43 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 rather | fixed |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 patience | case |
| 45 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 patience | amod |
| 46 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 largeness | conj |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 resignation | cc |
| 48 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 patience | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past | Russell | the yoke | Russell's youth | truly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoke=Patient | ||
| 2 | learn | past | Russell not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | yoke | buoyantly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | walk | infinitive | Russell not said here | that one's memory | yoke | with such elasticity of spirit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | is | present | of that; of largeness and joy rather mere patience or resignation; Russell nmod:poss; always property | tree rules |
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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