Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 15

She purchased a cart and mule, and with a young serving-man from the better class who respected her every whim, consenting to be carter, cook, protector, whatever Miss Russell wished, she went everywhere.

Who acts: simplicity, better class, Miss · What happens: purchase, respect, consent, be, wish, go · To what, where: cart, simplicity, carter

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 (simplicity, better class, Miss), 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 purchased	nsubj
2	purchased	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cart	det
4	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchased	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mule	cc
6	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cart	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 man	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	14 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
12	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 serving	punct
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchased	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 class	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 class	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 class	amod
18	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 respected	nsubj
20	respected	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 class	acl:relcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 respected	obj
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 whim	det
23	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 respected	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 consenting	punct
25	consenting	consent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 purchased	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 carter	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 carter	cop
28	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 consenting	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cook	punct
30	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carter	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 protector	punct
32	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carter	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whatever	punct
34	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 carter	conj
35	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 wished	nsubj
36	Russell	Russell	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Miss	flat
37	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 whatever	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 purchased	conj
41	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 went	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 purchased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	purchase	past	simplicity	a cart and mule	with a young serving man from the better class	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
2	respect	past	the better class	simplicity	every whim obj	tree rules
3	consent	gerund	simplicity not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive		carter and cook and protector	cook conj; protector conj; whatever conj	tree rules
5	wish	past	Miss			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	go	past	simplicity		everywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 15