Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 47
No one unassociated with Miss Russell can understand the tactful way in which she made suggestions.
Who acts: one, Russell · What happens: understand, make · To what, where: tactful way, suggestions
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 (one, Russell), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | unassociated | unassociated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Russell | case |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Russell | compound |
| 6 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 unassociated | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 understand | aux |
| 8 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | tactful | tactful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 understand | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | suggestions | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | can | no one | the tactful way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Russell | suggestions | the tactful way | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Product |
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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