Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 33
More than once the midnight hour found her still in conference with Chinese workers, strengthening those who were strong, exhorting the weak, and in some cases reporting and removing those who were proving inefficient, and even unworthy of their trust.
Who acts: midnight hour, cases · What happens: find, strengthen, be, exhort, report, remove · To what, where: Russell, conference, those, weak, cases
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 (midnight hour, cases), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 found | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hour | compound |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 conference | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 conference | case |
| 11 | conference | conference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 workers | case |
| 13 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 workers | amod |
| 14 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conference | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strengthening | punct |
| 16 | strengthening | strengthen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 strengthening | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 strong | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 strong | cop |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exhorting | punct |
| 22 | exhorting | exhort | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 strong | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 weak | det |
| 24 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 exhorting | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cases | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cases | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cases | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 cases | det |
| 29 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 exhorting | obl |
| 30 | reporting | report | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 cases | acl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 removing | cc |
| 32 | removing | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 reporting | conj |
| 33 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 removing | obj |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 proving | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 proving | aux |
| 36 | proving | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 those | acl:relcl |
| 37 | inefficient | inefficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 proving | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 unworthy | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 unworthy | cc |
| 40 | even | even | ADV | _ | 41 unworthy | advmod |
| 41 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 reporting | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 trust | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 trust | nmod:poss |
| 44 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 unworthy | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the midnight hour | Russell | conference with Chinese workers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 2 | strengthen | gerund | the midnight hour not said here | those | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | who nsubj; strong property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exhort | gerund | the weak | some cases | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | report | gerund | some cases not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | remove | gerund | some cases not said here | those | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 7 | prove | past · progressive | who nsubj; inefficient property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | trust | cases = case | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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.
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