Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 40
Her associates helped receive and entertain, sometimes for hours afterward, the many guests who came, showing school, kindergarten, museums, etc.
Who acts: associates, many guests · What happens: help, receive, entertain, come, show · To what, where: many guests, school
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 (associates, many guests), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 associates | nmod:poss |
| 2 | associates | associate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helped | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 entertain | cc |
| 6 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 receive | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hours | punct |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 hours | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helped | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 3 helped | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guests | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guests | det |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 guests | amod |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helped | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 guests | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 showing | punct |
| 19 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 came | advcl |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 showing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kindergarten | punct |
| 22 | kindergarten | kindergarten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 school | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 museums | punct |
| 24 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 school | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 etc. | punct |
| 26 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 3 helped | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Miss's associates | the many guests | hour | etc. conj; afterward property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||
| 2 | receive | infinitive | the many guests not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | entertain | infinitive | the many guests not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the many guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | gerund | the many guests not said here | school and kindergarten and museums | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient |
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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