Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 4
Russell of Peking had succumbed to illness and was no more.
What happens: succumb, not be · To what, where: Russell
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 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 succumbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Peking | case |
| 3 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Russell | nmod |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 succumbed | aux |
| 5 | succumbed | succumb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 illness | case |
| 7 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 succumbed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 more | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 more | cop |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 succumbed | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 succumbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succumb | past · perfect · passive | Russell of Peking | to illness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | more property | tree rules |
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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