Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 37
These lectures were given sometimes by Chinese, sometimes by Westerners, and covered every kind of subject.
What happens: give, cover · To what, where: lectures, Westerners, kind
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 lectures | det |
| 2 | lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 given | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Chinese | case |
| 7 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 given | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Westerners | punct |
| 9 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 Westerners | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Westerners | case |
| 11 | Westerners | Westerner | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 given | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 covered | cc |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 given | conj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 kind | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 subject | case |
| 18 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kind | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | this lectures | Westerners | by Chinese; sometimes property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient westerner=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | every kind of subject | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kind=Destination |
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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