Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 25
At its close, with no reserve, Miss Russell poured out her love and sympathy on the one hand, and on the other sought to regather the church in city and country, and to find work and help for men, women, and children.
Who acts: Miss Russell, Russell · What happens: pour out, seek, regather, find, love · To what, where: love, close reserve, other, church, city, work
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 (Miss Russell, Russell), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 reserve | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reserve | nmod:poss |
| 3 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reserve | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reserve | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 reserve | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 reserve | det |
| 7 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reserve | punct |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Russell | compound |
| 10 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | nsubj |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 love | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 love | nmod:poss |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sympathy | cc |
| 16 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 love | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hand | nummod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sought | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 other | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sought | obl |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poured | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 regather | mark |
| 28 | regather | regather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sought | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 church | det |
| 30 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 regather | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 city | case |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 regather | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 country | cc |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 city | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 find | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 find | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 find | mark |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 poured | conj |
| 39 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 help | cc |
| 41 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 work | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 men | case |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 find | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 women | punct |
| 45 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 men | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 children | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 children | cc |
| 48 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 men | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | past | Miss Russell | Russell's love and sympathy | fury's close reserve | on the one hand | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | ||
| 2 | seek | past | Miss Russell not said here | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | regather not said to happen | to-infinitive | Miss Russell not said here | the church | city and country | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Miss Russell not said here | work and help | for men and women and children | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent work=Theme for man=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | love | Russell | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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