Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 56
We are not free to open our homes, as we do not control them, but we are so grateful that we may come here.
Who acts: We · What happens: not be, open, not control, be, come · To what, where: homes, meetings
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 free | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 free | advmod |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 free | advcl |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 homes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 control | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 control | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 control | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 control | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 control | advmod |
| 14 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 open | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 control | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grateful | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 grateful | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 grateful | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grateful | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 grateful | advmod |
| 21 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 free | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 grateful | advcl |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | We | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | We not said here | our homes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not control | present · do-support | we | meetings = meeting | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | may | we | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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