Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 35
This meeting he advertised widely, and it was enthusiastically attended by many non-Christians.
Who acts: meeting, many non-Christians · What happens: advertise, attend · To what, where: conference
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 (meeting, many non-Christians), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 meeting | det |
| 2 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advertised | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advertised | nsubj |
| 4 | advertised | advertise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 4 advertised | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 attended | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 attended | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attended | aux:pass |
| 10 | enthusiastically | enthusiastically | ADV | _ | 11 attended | advmod |
| 11 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 advertised | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 non-Christians | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 non-Christians | amod |
| 14 | non-Christians | non-christian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 attended | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 advertised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advertise | past | this meeting | few nsubj; widely property | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | attend | past · passive | many non-Christians | conference | enthusiastically property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |
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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