Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 29
When she saw that she could not take as long country trips and endure the same fatigue as formerly, she set all her energies to work in bringing the Bible school for training women workers into being, and in reaching city women.
Who acts: hair · What happens: see, not take, endure, set, work, bring · To what, where: country trips, same fatigue, energies, Bible school, city women · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 trips | advmod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trips | compound |
| 12 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 endure | cc |
| 14 | endure | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fatigue | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fatigue | amod |
| 17 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 endure | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 formerly | case |
| 19 | formerly | formerly | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 endure | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | nsubj |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 energies | det:predet |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 energies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | energies | energy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 set | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 work | mark |
| 27 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 set | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 29 bringing | mark |
| 29 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 work | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 school | det |
| 31 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 school | compound |
| 32 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bringing | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 workers | case |
| 34 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 women | compound |
| 35 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 workers | compound |
| 36 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bringing | obl |
| 37 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 38 being | mark |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 bringing | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 reaching | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 reaching | cc |
| 41 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 42 reaching | mark |
| 42 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 set | advcl |
| 43 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 women | compound |
| 44 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 reaching | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not take | could | hair | country trips | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | endure | present | hair not said here | the same fatigue | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fatigue=Circumstance | ||||
| 4 | set | past | hair | hair's energies | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient energy=Result | ||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | hair not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bring | gerund | hair not said here | the Bible school | for women workers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent school=Theme | |||
| 7 | reach | gerund | hair not said here | city women | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
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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