Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 17
“With heart at leisure from itself,” she drew out from each one his story.
Who acts: simplicity · What happens: draw out · To what, where: story
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 leisure | case |
| 5 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 itself | case |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 leisure | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 drew | compound:prt |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 story | nmod:poss |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | simplicity | heart's story | with heart at leisure from leisure; from each one | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent story=Theme from one=Initial_Location |
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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