Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 78
There were almost always among them “Such a charming” or “Such a bright and lovely lady.”
What happens: be
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 always | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 were | advmod |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 always | obl |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 charming | punct |
| 8 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 charming | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 charming | det |
| 10 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | parataxis |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 charming | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lady | cc |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lady | punct |
| 14 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 lady | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lovely | cc |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bright | conj |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 charming | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lady | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | such charming or such bright lady parataxis; 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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