Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 11
The home-making instinct was so strong that she was not content, as others had been, to live in the families of married missionaries, but just as soon as possible secured a house, that she might have a home.
Who acts: making instinct, Peking, others · What happens: make, be, not be, live, secure, have · To what, where: families, house, home
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (making instinct, Peking, others), 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 | 5 instinct | det |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 home | punct |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 instinct | amod |
| 5 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strong | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strong | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 strong | advmod |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 content | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 content | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 content | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 content | advmod |
| 13 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 strong | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 been | mark |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 been | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 been | aux |
| 18 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 live | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 content | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 families | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 families | det |
| 24 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 live | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 missionaries | case |
| 26 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 missionaries | amod |
| 27 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 families | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 secured | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 secured | cc |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 soon | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 soon | advmod |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 secured | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 possible | mark |
| 34 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 soon | advcl |
| 35 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 strong | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 secured | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 have | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 secured | parataxis |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 home | det |
| 44 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | home compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the making instinct | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Peking | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past · perfect | others | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | Peking not said here | the families of married missionaries | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location | ||||
| 6 | secure | participle | the making instinct not said here | a house | soon property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition house=Theme | |||
| 7 | have | might | Peking | a home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/11/