Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 95

She knew so well that “It is more blessed,” and also more comfortable, “to give than to receive,” that in the happiest ways she made herself debtor to those about her.

Who acts: Russell, example · What happens: know, be, give, receive, make · To what, where: that, Russell · Speech: someone speaks here

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, example), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 blessed	mark
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 blessed	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blessed	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blessed	cop
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 blessed	advmod
10	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blessed	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 blessed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 comfortable	cc
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 comfortable	advmod
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blessed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	parataxis
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 receive	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	23 receive	mark
23	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 knew	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 ways	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ways	det
29	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 ways	amod
30	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 that	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ways	acl:relcl
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 made	obj
34	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 those	case
36	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 made	obl
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 those	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Russell	that in the happiest ways	well property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	example		blessed property	tree rules
3	be		example not said here			tree rules
4	give in a quote	to-infinitive				tree rules
5	receive in a quote	to-infinitive				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	Russell	Russell	to the happiest ways; debtor obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary debtor=Product

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 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 95