Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 9
Here she united with the church, and attended school, until her mother’s death in 1877.
Who acts: mother · What happens: attend, die · To what, where: school, 1877
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 (mother), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 united | nsubj |
| 3 | united | united | ADV | _ | 1 Here | ccomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 attended | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 attended | cc |
| 9 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attended | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 death | punct |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attended | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1877 | case |
| 18 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 attended | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past | school | 1877 | until Nellie's mother's death | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal | |||
| 3 | die | Nellie's mother | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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