Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 38
She invited noted ladies to come and address these meetings.
Who acts: Miss, noted ladies · What happens: invite, note, come, address · To what, where: noted ladies, meetings
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, noted ladies), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invited | nsubj |
| 2 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ladies | amod |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 invited | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 invited | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 address | cc |
| 8 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 meetings | det |
| 10 | meetings | meeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 address | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | Miss | noted ladies | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | noted ladies not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | address | infinitive | noted ladies not said here | this meetings | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=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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