Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 12

It was simplicity itself, but every nook and corner breathed the woman,—home-maker,—and it was always open to her friends, Chinese and Western.

Who acts: instinct, simplicity · What happens: be, breathe · To what, where: simplicity, woman

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 (instinct, simplicity), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 simplicity	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 simplicity	cop
3	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breathed	nsubj:outer
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 simplicity	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breathed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 breathed	cc
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 nook	det
8	nook	nook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breathed	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 corner	cc
10	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nook	conj
11	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breathed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 maker	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 maker	punct
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maker	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 home	punct
18	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breathed	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 open	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 open	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 open	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 open	cop
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 open	advmod
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breathed	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 friends	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friends	nmod:poss
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 open	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Chinese	punct
30	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 open	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Western	cc
32	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 open	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 breathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	instinct	simplicity	instinct nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	breathe	past	simplicity	the woman	every nook and corner nsubj	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
3	is	past	instinct		to simplicity's friends; always, open property	tree rules
4	be		instinct not said here			tree rules
5	be		instinct not said here			tree rules

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, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 12