Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 5
Those who had not known Miss Russell intimately can little guess the grief that came to every heart which knew her in China, whether belonging to the missionary body, American or British, the Legation circles of these countries, or the countless hundreds of Chinese who had felt the beautiful uplift of her personality.
Who acts: Those, grief, heart, countless hundreds, personality · What happens: not know, guess, come, know, belong, feel · To what, where: Miss Russell, grief, heart, Russell, China, Legation circles
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 (Those, grief, heart, countless hundreds), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 guess | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Russell | compound |
| 7 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obj |
| 8 | intimately | intimately | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 guess | aux |
| 10 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 guess | advmod |
| 11 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grief | det |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guess | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grief | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 heart | det |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heart | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 China | case |
| 23 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 knew | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 belonging | punct |
| 25 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 26 belonging | mark |
| 26 | belonging | belong | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 guess | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 body | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 body | det |
| 29 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 body | compound |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 belonging | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 American | punct |
| 32 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 body | amod |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 British | cc |
| 34 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 American | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 circles | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 circles | det |
| 37 | Legation | Legation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 circles | compound |
| 38 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 belonging | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 countries | case |
| 40 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 countries | det |
| 41 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 circles | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hundreds | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 hundreds | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 hundreds | det |
| 45 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 hundreds | amod |
| 46 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 belonging | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Chinese | case |
| 48 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | _ | 46 hundreds | nmod |
| 49 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 felt | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 felt | aux |
| 51 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 hundreds | acl:relcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 uplift | det |
| 53 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 uplift | amod |
| 54 | uplift | uplift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 felt | xcomp |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 personality | case |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 personality | nmod:poss |
| 57 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 uplift | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · perfect · passive | Miss Russell | who nsubj:pass; intimately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guess | can | Those | the grief | little property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | the grief | every heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | know | past | every heart | Russell | China | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | belong | gerund | Those not said here | the Legation circles of this countries | to the missionary body; the countless hundreds of Chinese obl | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | feel | past · perfect | the countless hundreds of Chinese | the beautiful uplift of Russell's personality | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | uplift | Russell's personality | nom uplift «event intransitive»: of=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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