Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 27
Oh! but these things almost broke her tender heart.
Who acts: things · What happens: break · To what, where: tender heart
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 (things), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 broke | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 broke | cc |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 broke | advmod |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heart | amod |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | this things | Russell's tender heart | almost property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=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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