Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 42
She read the papers, learned the newest phrases, found out what Chinese women loved, the motive of their acts, and, best of all, helped every one to be her best.
Who acts: Miss, Chinese women, phrases · What happens: read, learn, find out, love, help, be · To what, where: papers, newest phrases, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 women, phrases), 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 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 papers | det |
| 4 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 read | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 learned | punct |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 phrases | det |
| 8 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 phrases | amod |
| 9 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 phrases | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 found | compound:prt |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 loved | obj |
| 14 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 women | amod |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 motive | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 motive | det |
| 19 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learned | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 acts | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 acts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 motive | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 best | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 best | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 best | punct |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 learned | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 best | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 helped | punct |
| 30 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | parataxis |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 helped | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 best | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 best | cop |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 best | nmod:poss |
| 36 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 helped | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Miss | the papers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | Miss not said here | the newest phrases | the motive of phrases's acts obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Topic | |||
| 3 | find out | participle | the newest phrases not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | love | past | Chinese women | what obj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | help | past | every one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | Miss nmod:poss; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | act | phrases = phrase | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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