Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 85
It was her aim to come into intimate touch with many and to order her days so that she might be ready to respond to every call which came.
Who acts: service, Russell, call · What happens: be, come, order, respond · To what, where: aim, intimate touch
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 (service, Russell, call), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 aim | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aim | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 aim | nmod:poss |
| 4 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 aim | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 touch | case |
| 8 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 touch | amod |
| 9 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 many | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 order | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 order | mark |
| 14 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 days | nmod:poss |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 order | obj |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 ready | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 ready | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | cop |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 order | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 respond | mark |
| 24 | respond | respond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 call | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 call | det |
| 27 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 respond | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 call | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | service | Russell's aim | Russell nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | intimate touch | with many | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into touch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | order | to-infinitive | day | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | might | Russell | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | respond speech: other | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | to every call | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to call=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | every call | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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