Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 97
The stories published in this volume were gathered in long evenings when she wanted relief from the constant giving out from mind and heart, and were sought also that those who had treasured them in memory might, by imparting, feel themselves her aids and instructors.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: publish, gather, want, give out, seek, treasure · To what, where: stories, volume, relief, mind, those
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stories | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 volume | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 volume | det |
| 6 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 published | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | aux:pass |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 evenings | case |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 evenings | amod |
| 11 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 wanted | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | advcl |
| 15 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanted | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 constant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 constant | det |
| 18 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 constant | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 giving | compound:prt |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 mind | case |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heart | cc |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mind | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sought | cc |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sought | aux:pass |
| 28 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 giving | advcl |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 sought | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 treasured | mark |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 treasured | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 treasured | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 treasured | aux |
| 34 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 sought | advcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 treasured | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 memory | case |
| 37 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 might | obl |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 treasured | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 imparting | punct |
| 40 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 41 imparting | mark |
| 41 | imparting | impart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 treasured | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 feel | punct |
| 43 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 imparting | xcomp |
| 44 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 feel | obj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 aids | nmod:poss |
| 46 | aids | aid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 feel | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 instructors | cc |
| 48 | instructors | instructor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 aids | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | the stories not said here | this volume | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | the stories | evening | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | Russell | relief | constant property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot relief=Theme | |||
| 4 | give out | gerund | Russell not said here | mind and heart | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | seek | past · passive | Russell not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | treasure | past · perfect · passive | those | who nsubj; stories = story obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | impart | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | feel | infinitive | stories = story | Russell's aids and instructors obj | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme aid=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/97/