Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 53
Some of the ladies, when they found they would be free to have meetings here, said, “So often we want to meet together, we who are interested in the progress of our women, and plan and talk over matters.
Who acts: rooms, ladies, we, women · What happens: find, be, have, say, want, meet · To what, where: meetings, progress, matters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rooms, ladies, we, women), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 ladies | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ladies | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ladies | det |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ladies | parataxis |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 free | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 free | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 free | cop |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 free | advcl |
| 15 | meetings | meeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 have | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ladies | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 want | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 want | punct |
| 21 | So | so | ADV | _ | 22 often | advmod |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 want | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 want | nsubj |
| 24 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 want | xcomp |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 meet | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 interested | punct |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 interested | nsubj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 interested | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 interested | cop |
| 32 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 progress | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 progress | det |
| 35 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 interested | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 women | case |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 women | nmod:poss |
| 38 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 progress | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 plan | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 plan | cc |
| 41 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 talk | cc |
| 43 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 plan | conj |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 matters | case |
| 45 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 talk | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | rooms = room | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | would | rooms = room | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | rooms = room not said here | meetings | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | some ladies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | we | often property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | meet not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | we | the progress of our women | who nsubj; interested property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | plan in a quote | infinitive | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | talk in a quote | infinitive | matters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | progress in a quote | our women | nom progress «act 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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