Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 39
In this way she and her associates made hundreds of friends among women of every rank in society.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: make · To what, where: hundreds, way
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 associates | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 associates | nmod:poss |
| 7 | associates | associate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 she | conj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 women | case |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rank | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 rank | det |
| 16 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 women | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 society | case |
| 18 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rank | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Miss | hundreds of friends | this way | among women of every rank in society | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Product |
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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