Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 6
While at school at Northfield, Dwight L. Moody came to know her, and this reader of men at once saw her rarely winsome gifts.
Who acts: Dwight, reader · What happens: come, know, see · To what, where: Dwight
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 (Dwight, reader), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 school | mark |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 school | case |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Northfield | case |
| 5 | Northfield | Northfield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 school | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 school | punct |
| 7 | Dwight | Dwight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 8 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dwight | flat |
| 9 | Moody | Moody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dwight | flat |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 reader | det |
| 17 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reader | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 saw | obl |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 25 winsome | advmod |
| 25 | winsome | winsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gifts | amod |
| 26 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Dwight | school at Northfield advcl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | Dwight not said here | Dwight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | this reader of men | Dwight | winsome gifts obj | tree rules |
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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