Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 91
This work involved long and trying journeys and great physical fatigue.
Who acts: work · What happens: involve, try · To what, where: journeys
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 (work), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 work | det |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 involved | nsubj |
| 3 | involved | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 involved | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trying | cc |
| 6 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 involved | conj |
| 7 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trying | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fatigue | cc |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fatigue | amod |
| 10 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fatigue | amod |
| 11 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 journeys | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 involved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | past | this work | long property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | this work not said here | journeys and great physical fatigue | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
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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