Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 81
She who gave herself so lavishly, who had by her wonderful tact and charm won from each their best, had nothing to tell of how she had come to learn so much of these strangers.
Who acts: Russell, charm · What happens: give, have, win, tell, come, learn · To what, where: Russell, each, nothing, much · Speech: someone speaks here
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, charm), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 lavishly | advmod |
| 6 | lavishly | lavishly | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tact | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tact | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tact | amod |
| 13 | tact | tact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 won | cc |
| 15 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 won | nsubj |
| 16 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 won | obl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 best | nmod:poss |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 each | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 tell | mark |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 nothing | acl |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 come | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 come | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 tell | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 learn | mark |
| 32 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | xcomp |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 much | advmod |
| 34 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 learn | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 strangers | case |
| 36 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 strangers | det |
| 37 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 much | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Russell | Russell | who nsubj; lavishly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | by Russell's wonderful tact; who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win | past | charm | each interviews's best | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from each=Source | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Russell not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | nothing not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come | past · perfect | Russell | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | learn | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | much of this strangers | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
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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