Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 87
It was beautiful to see her welcome a group of curious visitors and make them feel that their interests were hers and, for the time, the thing of most importance.
Who acts: It, Russell, groups, interests · What happens: be, see, welcome, make, feel, interest · To what, where: Russell, group, groups
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 (It, Russell, groups, interests), 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 | 3 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beautiful | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 welcome | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 visitors | case |
| 11 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 visitors | amod |
| 12 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 group | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 welcome | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 hers | mark |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 interests | nmod:poss |
| 19 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hers | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hers | cop |
| 21 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feel | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 time | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hers | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thing | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thing | det |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 time | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 importance | case |
| 31 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 importance | amod |
| 32 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thing | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Russell | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | welcome | infinitive | Russell not said here | a group of curious visitors | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | Russell not said here | groups = group | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | groups = group not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | groups's interests | Russell | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | interest | groups = group | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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