Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 90
For years she spent more than half her time in the outstations connected with the Peking church as a centre.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: spend, connect · To what, where: outstations
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 years | case |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 half | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 time | det:predet |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 time | nmod:poss |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 outstations | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 outstations | det |
| 12 | outstations | outstation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obl |
| 13 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 outstations | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 church | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 church | det |
| 16 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 church | compound |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 connected | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 centre | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 centre | det |
| 20 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 church | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Russell | the outstations | time; year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | connect | participle | the outstations not said here | with the Peking church as a centre | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with church=Co-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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