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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 28

Her hair grew grey and the power to resist disease and overweariness lessened, yet the spirit of our friend rallied, and she entered into the joy of the Conquering Christ.

Who acts: hair, spirit · What happens: grow, resist, lessen, rally, enter, joy · To what, where: disease, joy, Conquering Christ

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 (hair, spirit), 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

nmod:possnsubjxcompccdetconjmarkadvclobjccconjxcomppunctccdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodconjpunctccnsubjadvclcasedetoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootHerPRONhairNOUNgrewVERBgreyADJandCCONJtheDETpowerNOUNtoPARTresistVERBdiseaseNOUNandCCONJoverwearinessNOUNlessenedVERB,PUNCTyetCCONJtheDETspiritNOUNofADPourPRONfriendNOUNralliedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONenteredVERBintoADPtheDETjoyNOUNofADPtheDETConqueringPROPNChristPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 hairnmod:poss
2hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing3 grewnsubj
3grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4greygreyADJDegree=Pos3 grewxcomp
5andandCCONJ_7 powercc
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 powerdet
7powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing3 grewconj
8totoPART_9 resistmark
9resistresistVERBVerbForm=Inf3 grewadvcl
10diseasediseaseNOUNNumber=Sing9 resistobj
11andandCCONJ_12 overwearinesscc
12overwearinessoverwearinessNOUNNumber=Sing10 diseaseconj
13lessenedlessenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 resistxcomp
14,,PUNCT_21 ralliedpunct
15yetyetCCONJ_21 ralliedcc
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 spiritdet
17spiritspiritNOUNNumber=Sing21 ralliednsubj
18ofofADP_20 friendcase
19ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 friendnmod:poss
20friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing17 spiritnmod
21ralliedrallyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 grewconj
22,,PUNCT_25 enteredpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 enteredcc
24sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 enterednsubj
25enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 ralliedadvcl
26intointoADP_28 joycase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 joydet
28joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing25 enteredobl
29ofofADP_32 Christcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Christdet
31ConqueringConqueringPROPNNumber=Sing32 Christcompound
32ChristChristPROPNNumber=Sing28 joynmod
33..PUNCT_3 grewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1growpastRussell's hairthe power conj; grey propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2resistto-infinitiveRussell's hair not said heredisease and overwearinesstree rules
3lessenparticipleRussell's hair not said herevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4rallypastthe spirit of our friendtree rules
5enterpastspiritthe joy of the Conquering Christvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into joy=Initial_Location
6joythe Conquering Christnom joy «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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