Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 36
Miss Russell, seeing the opportunity, began both at this and the First Church to have simple lectures for women on the great Fair days, three times a month.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: see, begin, have · To what, where: opportunity, this, simple lectures
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 (Miss), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 2 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Miss | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Miss | punct |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | both | both | ADV | _ | 8 began | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 began | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Church | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Church | det |
| 14 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 Church | amod |
| 15 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 began | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | advcl |
| 18 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lectures | amod |
| 19 | lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lectures | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 25 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 days | compound |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 women | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 times | punct |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 times | nummod |
| 29 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lectures | appos |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 month | det |
| 31 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Miss not said here | the opportunity | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Miss | this | the First Church conj; both property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | Miss not said here | simple lectures | for women on the great Fair days | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Patient |
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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