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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 51

The Chinese, in the desire to be “enlightened” and like Europeans, which has temporarily seized them, have too often banished their beautiful furniture from their reception-rooms, substituting an inferior European article.

What happens: enlighten, seize, banish, substitute · To what, where: Europeans, Chinese desire, reception rooms, inferior European article

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: 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

detamodpunctcasedetnsubj:passmarkaux:passpunctadvclpunctcccasensubj:passpunctnsubj:passauxadvmodconjobjpunctauxadvmodadvmodnmod:possamodobjcasenmod:posscompoundpunctoblpunctadvcldetamodamodobjpunctrootTheDETChineseADJ,PUNCTinADPtheDETdesireNOUNtoPARTbeAUX“PUNCTenlightenedVERB”PUNCTandCCONJlikeADPEuropeansPROPN,PUNCTwhichPRONhasAUXtemporarilyADVseizedVERBthemPRON,PUNCThaveAUXtooADVoftenADVbanishedVERBtheirPRONbeautifulADJfurnitureNOUNfromADPtheirPRONreceptionNOUN-PUNCTroomsNOUN,PUNCTsubstitutingVERBanDETinferiorADJEuropeanADJarticleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 desiredet
2ChineseChineseADJDegree=Pos6 desireamod
3,,PUNCT_6 desirepunct
4ininADP_6 desirecase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 desiredet
6desiredesireNOUNNumber=Sing25 banishednsubj:pass
7totoPART_10 enlightenedmark
8bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf10 enlightenedaux:pass
9“"PUNCT_10 enlightenedpunct
10enlightenedenlightenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 desireadvcl
11”"PUNCT_10 enlightenedpunct
12andandCCONJ_19 seizedcc
13likelikeADP_14 Europeanscase
14EuropeansEuropeanPROPNNumber=Plur19 seizednsubj:pass
15,,PUNCT_19 seizedpunct
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 seizednsubj:pass
17hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 seizedaux
18temporarilytemporarilyADV_19 seizedadvmod
19seizedseizeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 enlightenedconj
20themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 seizedobj
21,,PUNCT_6 desirepunct
22havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 banishedaux
23tootooADV_24 oftenadvmod
24oftenoftenADV_25 banishedadvmod
25banishedbanishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
26theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 furniturenmod:poss
27beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos28 furnitureamod
28furniturefurnitureNOUNNumber=Sing25 banishedobj
29fromfromADP_33 roomscase
30theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 roomsnmod:poss
31receptionreceptionNOUNNumber=Sing33 roomscompound
32--PUNCT_31 receptionpunct
33roomsroomNOUNNumber=Plur25 banishedobl
34,,PUNCT_35 substitutingpunct
35substitutingsubstituteVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 banishedadvcl
36anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 articledet
37inferiorinferiorADJDegree=Pos39 articleamod
38EuropeanEuropeanADJDegree=Pos39 articleamod
39articlearticleNOUNNumber=Sing35 substitutingobj
40..PUNCT_25 banishedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1enlighten in a quoteto-infinitive · passivevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2seizepresent · perfect · passiveEuropeanswhich nsubj:pass; flowers = flower obj; temporarily propertytree rules
3banishpresent · perfect · passivethe Chinese desireflowers's reception roomsflowers's beautiful furniture obj; often propertytree rules
4substitutegerunda inferior European articlevn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme article=Location

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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