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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

detcasedetnsubjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisnsubjauxcopccompmarkadvclobjadvmodpunctpunctpunctadvmodadvmodnsubjccompmarkxcompadvmodpunctnsubjnsubjcopconjcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccparataxisccconjcaseoblpunctrootSomeDETofADPtheDETladiesNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVtheyPRONfoundVERBtheyPRONwouldAUXbeAUXfreeADJtoPARThaveVERBmeetingsNOUNhereADV,PUNCTsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTSoADVoftenADVwePRONwantVERBtoPARTmeetVERBtogetherADV,PUNCTwePRONwhoPRONareAUXinterestedADJinADPtheDETprogressNOUNofADPourPRONwomenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJplanVERBandCCONJtalkVERBoverADPmattersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SomesomeDETPronType=Ind4 ladiesdet
2ofofADP_4 ladiescase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 ladiesdet
4ladiesladyNOUNNumber=Plur18 saidnsubj
5,,PUNCT_8 foundpunct
6whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 foundadvmod
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 foundnsubj
8foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 ladiesparataxis
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 freensubj
10wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin12 freeaux
11bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf12 freecop
12freefreeADJDegree=Pos8 foundccomp
13totoPART_14 havemark
14havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf12 freeadvcl
15meetingsmeetingNOUNNumber=Plur14 haveobj
16herehereADVPronType=Dem14 haveadvmod
17,,PUNCT_4 ladiespunct
18saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
19,,PUNCT_24 wantpunct
20“"PUNCT_24 wantpunct
21SosoADV_22 oftenadvmod
22oftenoftenADV_24 wantadvmod
23wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs24 wantnsubj
24wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 saidccomp
25totoPART_26 meetmark
26meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf24 wantxcomp
27togethertogetherADV_26 meetadvmod
28,,PUNCT_32 interestedpunct
29wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs32 interestednsubj
30whowhoPRONPronType=Rel32 interestednsubj
31arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 interestedcop
32interestedinterestedADJDegree=Pos18 saidconj
33ininADP_35 progresscase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 progressdet
35progressprogressNOUNNumber=Sing32 interestedobl
36ofofADP_38 womencase
37ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 womennmod:poss
38womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur35 progressnmod
39,,PUNCT_41 planpunct
40andandCCONJ_41 plancc
41planplanVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin18 saidparataxis
42andandCCONJ_43 talkcc
43talktalkVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin41 planconj
44overoverADP_45 matterscase
45mattersmatterNOUNNumber=Plur43 talkobl
46..PUNCT_18 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastrooms = roomvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2iswouldrooms = roomfree propertytree rules
3haveto-infinitiverooms = room not said heremeetingsherevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Patient
4say speech: assertpastsome ladiesvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5want in a quotepresentweoften propertyvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6meet not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivewe not said heretogether propertyvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7is in a quotepresentwethe progress of our womenwho nsubj; interested propertytree rules
8plan in a quoteinfinitivevn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
9talk in a quoteinfinitivemattersvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10progress in a quoteour womennom 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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