Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 24

Ah! no one who was out of China can ever realize the strain of the months preceding that awful cataclysm, the agony of those months in the siege itself, not because of self, but because of missionary friends, and because of the children begotten of the Lord, who were out unsheltered in the fury of that wild and awful storm.

Who acts: one, months, children, Lord · What happens: be, precede, beget, strain, infuriate · To what, where: China, awful cataclysm, siege, fury, one, wild storm

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 (one, months, children, Lord), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 realize	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 realize	cop
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 China	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 realize	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 realize	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 realize	advmod
12	realize	realize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 one	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 strain	det
14	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 realize	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 months	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 months	det
17	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 strain	nmod
18	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 months	acl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cataclysm	mark
20	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cataclysm	amod
21	cataclysm	cataclysm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 preceding	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 agony	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 agony	det
24	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cataclysm	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 months	case
26	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 months	det
27	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 agony	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 siege	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 siege	det
30	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 preceding	obl
31	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	30 siege	nmod:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 self	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 self	advmod
34	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	36 self	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 because	fixed
36	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 preceding	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 friends	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 friends	cc
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 friends	mark
40	of	of	ADP	_	39 because	fixed
41	missionary	missionary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 friends	amod
42	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 begotten	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 begotten	cc
45	because	because	SCONJ	_	49 begotten	mark
46	of	of	ADP	_	45 because	fixed
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 children	det
48	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 begotten	nsubj
49	begotten	beget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 one	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Lord	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Lord	det
52	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 begotten	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 unsheltered	punct
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 unsheltered	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 unsheltered	cop
56	out	out	ADP	_	55 were	compound:prt
57	unsheltered	unsheltered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 Lord	amod
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 fury	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 fury	det
60	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 unsheltered	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	66 storm	case
62	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	66 storm	det
63	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 storm	amod
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 awful	cc
65	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 wild	conj
66	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 fury	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can · past	no one but missionary friends		China	ever	the strain of the months obj; realize property	tree rules
2	precede	gerund	the months not said here	awful cataclysm	the siege siege		because self	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cataclysm=Co-Theme
3	beget	participle	the children				of the Lord	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the Lord		the fury of that wild storm		unsheltered property	tree rules
6	strain		the months					nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
7	infuriate			that wild storm				nom fury «feeling 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 24

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 24