Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 84
She, more than any other missionary whom I have known, held herself conscientiously free from the restrictions of fixed hours and a teaching schedule, that she might be at liberty for large social and individual service.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: know, hold, fix, be, restrict · To what, where: other missionary, Russell, liberty, fixed hours
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 | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 missionary | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 missionary | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 missionary | amod |
| 7 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 known | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 missionary | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | conscientiously | conscientiously | ADV | _ | 16 free | advmod |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 held | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 restrictions | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 restrictions | det |
| 19 | restrictions | restriction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 free | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hours | case |
| 21 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hours | amod |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 restrictions | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 schedule | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 schedule | det |
| 25 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 schedule | compound |
| 26 | schedule | schedule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hours | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 liberty | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 liberty | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 liberty | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 liberty | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 liberty | cop |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 liberty | case |
| 33 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 service | case |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 service | amod |
| 36 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 service | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 individual | cc |
| 38 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 social | conj |
| 39 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 liberty | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect · passive | any other missionary | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Russell | free property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | might | Russell | liberty | for large social service | tree rules | |||
| 6 | restrict | fixed hours and a teaching schedule | nom restriction «cognition 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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