Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 94

To any who desired to follow her example she gave advice and help so unobtrusively that it never seemed like criticism or an assumption of being wiser or better than they, but just ordinary neighbourliness.

Who acts: Russell, it · What happens: desire, follow, give, not seem, be, exemplify · To what, where: ordinary neighbourliness, example, advice

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, it), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 any	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 desired	obl
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 desired	nsubj
4	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 desired	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 example	nmod:poss
8	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 example	acl:relcl
11	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 advice	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 unobtrusively	advmod
15	unobtrusively	unobtrusively	ADV	_	10 gave	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 seemed	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 seemed	advmod
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 unobtrusively	advcl
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 criticism	case
21	criticism	criticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seemed	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 assumption	cc
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 assumption	det
24	assumption	assumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 criticism	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wiser	case
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 wiser	cop
27	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 assumption	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 better	cc
29	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 wiser	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 they	case
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wiser	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 neighbourliness	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 neighbourliness	cc
34	just	just	ADV	_	36 neighbourliness	advmod
35	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 neighbourliness	amod
36	neighbourliness	neighbourliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 desired	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	desire	past		ordinary neighbourliness	to any; who nsubj	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive		Russell's example		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme
3	give	past	Russell	advice and help	unobtrusively property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
4	not seem	past	it		like criticism or a assumption	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	gerund			than criticism; wise property	tree rules
6	be					tree rules
7	exemplify		Russell			nom example «cognition transitive»: 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 94

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 94