Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 32
It was she who gave her days and nights for many weeks, and even months, to helping Dr. Charles Young, the only gentleman then in the Peking station, settle and rearrange the work.
Who acts: work · What happens: be, help, settle, rearrange · To what, where: Russell, Charles, Peking station, work
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 (work), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nights | cc |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 days | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 weeks | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weeks | amod |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 days | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 months | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 months | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 months | advmod |
| 16 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 helping | punct |
| 18 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 helping | mark |
| 19 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 20 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 helping | obj |
| 22 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Charles | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gentleman | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gentleman | det |
| 25 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gentleman | amod |
| 26 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Charles | appos |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 settle | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 station | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 station | det |
| 30 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 station | compound |
| 31 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 settle | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 station | punct |
| 33 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helping | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rearrange | cc |
| 35 | rearrange | rearrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 settle | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 work | det |
| 37 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rearrange | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | work | Russell | day; month | who nsubj; give property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | help | gerund | work not said here | Charles Dr. | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charles=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | settle | infinitive | work not said here | the Peking station | then | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in station=Location | |||
| 4 | rearrange | infinitive | work not said here | the work | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Result |
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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