Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 45
Chinese youth and Chinese women are in that sensitive state—the state of real life and growth—when they long to originate and execute for themselves.
Who acts: Chinese youth, youth · What happens: be, long, originate, execute · To what, where: sensitive state
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 (Chinese youth, youth), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 youth | amod |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 state | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 women | cc |
| 4 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 youth | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 state | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 state | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 state | det |
| 9 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 state | amod |
| 10 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 state | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 state | det |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 state | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 state | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 growth | cc |
| 18 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 state | conj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 long | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 long | nsubj |
| 22 | long | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 state | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 originate | mark |
| 24 | originate | originate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 long | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 execute | cc |
| 26 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 originate | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 themselves | case |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 execute | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chinese youth and Chinese women | that sensitive state | the state of real life and growth appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | long | present | youth | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | originate not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | execute | infinitive | youth not said here | for youth | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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