Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 83
Yet we, who sometimes caught a glimpse of the inner life, knew that she made a constant study of methods of approach and went with prayerful preparation to meet the various calls.
Who acts: we, Russell · What happens: catch, know, make, go, meet, glimpse · To what, where: glimpse, constant study, various calls, inner life, methods · 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 (we, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 caught | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 caught | advmod |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glimpse | det |
| 8 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glimpse | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 study | det |
| 19 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 study | amod |
| 20 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 methods | case |
| 22 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 study | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 approach | case |
| 24 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 methods | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 preparation | case |
| 28 | prayerful | prayerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 preparation | amod |
| 29 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 meet | mark |
| 31 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 went | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 calls | det |
| 33 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 calls | amod |
| 34 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 meet | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | we | a glimpse of the inner life | who nsubj; sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Russell | a constant study of methods of approach | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Product | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Russell not said here | with prayerful preparation | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with preparation=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | the various calls | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | glimpse | the inner life | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | study | methods of approach | nom study «act transitive»: of=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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