Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 46
It is the sign of independence, and while it leads to mistakes, in the end it will lead to more vigorous thinking and action.
Who acts: life · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: sign
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sign | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sign | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 independence | case |
| 6 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leads | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leads | cc |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 leads | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leads | nsubj |
| 11 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sign | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mistakes | case |
| 13 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leads | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lead | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lead | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lead | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lead | aux |
| 20 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leads | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 thinking | case |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 thinking | amod |
| 23 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thinking | amod |
| 24 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lead | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 action | cc |
| 26 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thinking | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | life | the sign | of independence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | present | life | to mistakes | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to mistake=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lead | future | life | in the end | to more vigorous thinking and action | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in end=Patient |
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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