Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 23
The persecution of each Christian took a mighty hold on her sympathetic heart.
Who acts: persecution · What happens: take, persecute · To what, where: mighty hold, sympathetic heart, Christian
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 (persecution), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 persecution | det |
| 2 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Christian | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Christian | det |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 persecution | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hold | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hold | amod |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sympathetic | sympathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the persecution of each Christian | a mighty hold | persecution's sympathetic heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on heart=Destination | |||
| 2 | persecute | each Christian | nom persecution «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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