Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 22

When the Boxer storm began to gather, being so much in the country in the winter of 1899 and 1900, she saw, as few did, the blackening clouds.

Who acts: Boxer storm, storm, few · What happens: begin, gather, be, see, do · To what, where: country, blackening clouds

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 (Boxer storm, storm, few), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 began	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
3	Boxer	Boxer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 storm	compound
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 gather	mark
7	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 country	punct
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 country	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	14 country	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gather	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 winter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 winter	det
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 country	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 1899	case
19	1899	1899	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 winter	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 1900	cc
21	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 1899	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 did	mark
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 clouds	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 clouds	det
31	blackening	blackening	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clouds	compound
32	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 did	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the Boxer storm				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	gather	to-infinitive	the Boxer storm not said here				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund			the country	winter	tree rules
4	see	past	storm				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	past	few	the blackening clouds			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 22