Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 79
She set their striking characteristics before us in racy, sympathetic stories to which we, in the Ladies’ Home, listened with delight, and went from the recital to our routine duties with a sense of having been introduced to a fresh circle of attractive friends from day to day.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: set, listen, go, introduce · To what, where: striking characteristics, racy sympathetic stories, Home, recital, sense
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 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 characteristics | nmod:poss |
| 4 | striking | striking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characteristics | compound |
| 5 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 9 | racy | racy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stories | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 racy | punct |
| 11 | sympathetic | sympathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stories | amod |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 Home | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Home | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Home | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Home | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ladies | det |
| 19 | Ladies | Lady | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 19 Ladies | case |
| 21 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stories | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 listened | punct |
| 23 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Home | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 delight | case |
| 25 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 listened | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 recital | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 recital | det |
| 31 | recital | recital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 duties | case |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 duties | nmod:poss |
| 34 | routine | routine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 duties | amod |
| 35 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 went | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 sense | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sense | det |
| 38 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 duties | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 42 introduced | mark |
| 40 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 introduced | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 introduced | aux:pass |
| 42 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 sense | acl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 circle | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 circle | det |
| 45 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 circle | amod |
| 46 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 introduced | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 friends | case |
| 48 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 friends | amod |
| 49 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 circle | nmod |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 day | case |
| 51 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 friends | nmod |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 day | case |
| 53 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 introduced | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Russell | interviews's striking characteristics | racy sympathetic stories in the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories in the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories we we | before us | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent characteristic=Theme before we=Destination | ||
| 2 | listen | participle | the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories in the Ladies's Home to racy sympathetic stories in Home we we not said here | with delight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Russell not said here | the recital | to our routine duties with a sense | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from recital=Initial_Location to duty=Destination | |||
| 4 | introduce | gerund · perfect · passive | a sense not said here | day | to a fresh circle of attractive friends from day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to circle=Co-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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