Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 70
She knew better than most of God’s children how to delight in all the beautiful things her Heavenly Father had placed in the earthly environment, and it was not until disease and sorrow had wasted her reserves of strength that she began to speak often of the life beyond.
Who acts: Russell, most, beautiful things · What happens: know, delight, place, not waste, begin, speak · To what, where: beautiful things, Heavenly, earthly environment, environment, life · 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 (Russell, most, beautiful things), 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 | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 knew | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 delight | mark |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 delight | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 God | case |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 most | nmod |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 delight | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 delight | mark |
| 12 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 things | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 things | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 things | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 delight | obl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Heavenly | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Heavenly | Heavenly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Heavenly | flat |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 things | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 environment | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 environment | det |
| 25 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 environment | amod |
| 26 | environment | environment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wasted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wasted | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wasted | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 wasted | advmod |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 wasted | mark |
| 33 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sorrow | cc |
| 35 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 disease | conj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wasted | aux |
| 37 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | conj |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 reserves | nmod:poss |
| 39 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 wasted | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 strength | case |
| 41 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reserves | nmod |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 began | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 began | nsubj |
| 44 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wasted | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 speak | mark |
| 46 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 began | xcomp |
| 47 | often | often | ADV | _ | 50 life | advmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 life | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 life | det |
| 50 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 speak | obj |
| 51 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 46 speak | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Russell | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | delight | to-infinitive | most of God's children | all beautiful things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | place | past · perfect · passive | all beautiful things not said here | Russell's Heavenly | the earthly environment | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in environment=Destination | |||
| 4 | not waste | past · perfect · passive | environment | disease and sorrow nsubj:pass; Russell's reserves of strength obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | Russell | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | the life | beyond 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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