Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 71
To that she looked and for it she longed, not as rest from service but as larger opportunity and wider vision.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: look, long · To what, where: rest, service
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 looked | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 longed | cc |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 longed | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 longed | nsubj |
| 9 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rest | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 rest | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 rest | case |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longed | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 service | case |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | nmod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 opportunity | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 opportunity | case |
| 18 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 opportunity | amod |
| 19 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 vision | cc |
| 21 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 vision | amod |
| 22 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opportunity | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Russell | to that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | long | past | Russell | rest but larger opportunity and wider vision | service | for environment | 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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