Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 93
Here she could receive guests and give, by the attractiveness of her surroundings, object lessons in home-making.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: receive, give · To what, where: guests, attractiveness
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 receive | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 receive | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 receive | aux |
| 4 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 receive | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 receive | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 attractiveness | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 attractiveness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 attractiveness | det |
| 11 | attractiveness | attractiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 surroundings | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 attractiveness | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lessons | punct |
| 16 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lessons | compound |
| 17 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surroundings | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 making | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 home | punct |
| 21 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lessons | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | could | Russell | guests | here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present | Russell not said here | the attractiveness of Russell's surroundings and object lessons in home making | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attractiveness=Theme |
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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