Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 41
With rare tact Miss Russell showed her appreciation of all things in Chinese life that were really beautiful.
Who acts: Miss, Chinese life · What happens: show, be · To what, where: appreciation
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, Chinese life), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 tact | case |
| 2 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tact | amod |
| 3 | tact | tact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | obl |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 5 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | flat |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 appreciation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | appreciation | appreciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 things | det |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 appreciation | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 things | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 beautiful | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beautiful | cop |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Miss | Miss's appreciation of all things in Chinese life | with rare tact | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent appreciation=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Chinese life | beautiful 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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