Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 89
From the very beginning of her life in China Miss Russell realized the importance of the country work.
What happens: realize, begin · To what, where: importance, beginning, life
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beginning | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 realized | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Miss | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Miss | compound |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nmod |
| 11 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Miss | flat |
| 12 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 importance | det |
| 14 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 realized | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | compound |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 importance | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 realized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | the importance of the country work | from the beginning of Russell's life in China Miss | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer importance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | begin | Russell's life in China Miss | nom beginning «event 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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