Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 92
On these trips she established herself whenever practicable in a room or rooms of which she could have control.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: establish, have · To what, where: Russell, trips, control
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 trips | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 trips | det |
| 3 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 established | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 established | nsubj |
| 5 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 established | obj |
| 7 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 practicable | advmod |
| 8 | practicable | practicable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 established | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practicable | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 rooms | cc |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 room | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 have | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rooms | acl:relcl |
| 19 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | Russell | Russell | this trips | practicable property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on trip=Source | ||
| 2 | have | could | Russell | control | of rooms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=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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