Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 18
She never went in the spirit, “Now-I-am-holier,-more-civilized-than-thou,-therefore-hear-ye-me,” but rather in the spirit of one who sought to find out the interest or the hunger of each one’s life, and so somehow bring it in touch with the Lover of all.
Who acts: simplicity, life · What happens: not go, seek, find out, bring, hunger · To what, where: spirit, interest, am, touch
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, life), 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 | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spirit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 holier | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 holier | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 holier | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Now | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 holier | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 13 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holier | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 am | punct |
| 15 | holier | holey | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 holier | conj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 more | punct |
| 20 | civilized | civilized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 holier | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 civilized | punct |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 thou | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 than | punct |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 civilized | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 27 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 33 me | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 therefore | punct |
| 29 | hear | hear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 me | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 me | nsubj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 holier | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 holier | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 spirit | cc |
| 37 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 40 spirit | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 spirit | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spirit | det |
| 40 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holier | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 one | case |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 spirit | appos |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 sought | nsubj |
| 44 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 one | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 find | mark |
| 46 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 sought | xcomp |
| 47 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 find | compound:prt |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 interest | det |
| 49 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 find | obj |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 hunger | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 hunger | det |
| 52 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 interest | conj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 life | case |
| 54 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 55 one | det |
| 55 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 life | nmod:poss |
| 56 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 55 one | case |
| 57 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 hunger | nmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 bring | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 bring | cc |
| 60 | so | so | ADV | _ | 62 bring | advmod |
| 61 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 62 bring | advmod |
| 62 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 63 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 bring | obj |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 touch | case |
| 65 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 bring | obl |
| 66 | with | with | ADP | _ | 68 Lover | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 Lover | det |
| 68 | Lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 touch | nmod |
| 69 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 all | case |
| 70 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 68 Lover | nmod |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | simplicity | the spirit | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the interest or the hunger of each one's life | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | simplicity not said here | am = a.m. | touch with the Lover of all | somehow property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 5 | hunger | each one's life | nom hunger «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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