Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 77
She came from interviews with individuals or groups of women with the most delightful stories of those she had met.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: come, meet · To what, where: interviews
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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 interviews | case |
| 4 | interviews | interview | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 individuals | case |
| 6 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 interviews | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 groups | cc |
| 8 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 individuals | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 women | case |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 groups | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stories | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 delightful | advmod |
| 14 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stories | amod |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 individuals | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 those | case |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 stories | nmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | aux |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Russell | interviews with individuals with the delightful stories of those or groups of women | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from interview=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect | Russell | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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