Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 19
Such discoveries as she made of possibilities in the lives of this one and that!
Who acts: simplicity · What happens: make · To what, where: Such discoveries
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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 discoveries | amod |
| 2 | discoveries | discovery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 made | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 possibilities | case |
| 7 | possibilities | possibility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lives | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lives | det |
| 10 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 possibilities | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lives | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 that | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | simplicity | Such discoveries | of possibilities in the lives of this one that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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