Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 3
The twenty-second day of August the cable flashed across the Pacific the news that Miss Nellie N.
What happens: flash · To what, where: second day, Pacific
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 second | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 twenty | punct |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flashed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 August | case |
| 7 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cable | det |
| 9 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flashed | nsubj |
| 10 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 Pacific | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pacific | det |
| 13 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 flashed | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flashed | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 N | nsubj |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nellie | compound |
| 18 | Nellie | Nellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 N | compound |
| 19 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 news | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | participle · passive | the second day of August | the Pacific | the cable nsubj; the news Nellie N that obj | tree rules |
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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