Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 20
On returning to Peking for work in the city, she again wore the European dress.
Who acts: simplicity · What happens: return, wear · To what, where: Peking, European dress
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 returning | mark |
| 2 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wore | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Peking | case |
| 4 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returning | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returning | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 returning | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wore | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 wore | advmod |
| 13 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dress | det |
| 15 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dress | amod |
| 16 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | simplicity not said here | Peking | for work in the city | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to peking=Result | |||
| 2 | wear | past | simplicity | the European dress | again | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=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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