Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 31

Following the sudden but prolonged sickness and the death of Dr. Ament, no one knew as did Miss Russell the work of the pastors, evangelists, teachers, and chapel-keepers, in the city and in the large country field, which reached into a few walled cities and many market towns and villages.

Who acts: Following, one, large country field, Dr. Ament, pastors · What happens: follow, prolong, know, do, reach, wall · To what, where: sudden, sickness, Miss Russell, few walled cities · 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 (Following, one, large country field, Dr. Ament), 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	Following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 prolonged	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sudden	det
3	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Following	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 prolonged	cc
5	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prolonged	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 death	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 death	det
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sickness	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Ament	case
11	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ament	compound
12	Ament	ament	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 death	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sickness	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 did	mark
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 knew	ccomp
19	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Russell	compound
20	Russell	Russell	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 did	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 work	det
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 did	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pastors	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pastors	det
25	pastors	pastor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 work	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 evangelists	punct
27	evangelists	evangelist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pastors	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 teachers	punct
29	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pastors	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 keepers	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 keepers	cc
32	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 keepers	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 chapel	punct
34	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prolonged	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 city	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 city	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 city	det
38	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 keepers	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 field	cc
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 field	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 field	det
42	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 field	amod
43	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 field	compound
44	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 city	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 reached	punct
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 reached	nsubj
47	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 field	acl:relcl
48	into	into	ADP	_	52 cities	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 cities	det
50	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 cities	amod
51	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 cities	amod
52	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 reached	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 towns	cc
54	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 towns	amod
55	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 towns	compound
56	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 cities	conj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 villages	cc
58	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 towns	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prolonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		the sudden			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sudden=Theme
2	prolong	past	Following	sickness and the death of Dr. Ament		chapel keepers in the city and the large country field obl	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme
3	know	past	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	past		Miss Russell		the work of the pastors and evangelists and teachers obj	tree rules
5	reach	past	the large country field		a few walled cities and many market towns and villages		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into city=Path
6	wall	participle					tree rules
7	die		Dr. Ament				nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent
8	work		the pastors and evangelists and teachers				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/31/

🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 31