Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 74
She, worn with sleeplessness and anxiety, was yet the inspirer and comforter, and all with a self-effacing sweetness which sought no recognition of what she gave!
Who acts: Russell, effacing sweetness · What happens: wear, be, efface, seek, give · To what, where: inspirer, recognition
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, effacing sweetness), 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 | 3 worn | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worn | punct |
| 3 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sleeplessness | case |
| 5 | sleeplessness | sleeplessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inspirer | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 anxiety | cc |
| 7 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sleeplessness | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeplessness | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 inspirer | cop |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 inspirer | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inspirer | det |
| 12 | inspirer | inspirer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worn | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comforter | cc |
| 14 | comforter | comforter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inspirer | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 all | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 worn | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sweetness | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sweetness | det |
| 20 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 effacing | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 self | punct |
| 22 | effacing | efface | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sweetness | amod |
| 23 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 all | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sought | nsubj |
| 25 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sweetness | acl:relcl |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 recognition | det |
| 27 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 what | case |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 recognition | nmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | participle | Russell | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Russell not said here | the inspirer and comforter | with sleeplessness and anxiety; comforter conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | efface | gerund | self compound | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | a effacing sweetness | no recognition | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recognition=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Russell | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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