Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 61

Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies I cannot favour, but Miss Russell is so wise, so careful, so good a friend of the Chinese, I can always trust her.”

Who acts: I, Some, Chinese ladies · What happens: not favour, be, trust, suggest · To what, where: Chinese ladies, Miss

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 (I, Some, Chinese ladies), 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	19 wise	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 suggestions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 suggestions	det
4	suggestions	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 ladies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladies	det
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ladies	amod
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suggestions	nmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 favour	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 favour	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 favour	advmod
12	favour	favour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ladies	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wise	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wise	cc
15	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 wise	nsubj
16	Russell	Russell	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Miss	flat
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wise	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 wise	advmod
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 careful	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 careful	advmod
22	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wise	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 friend	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 friend	amod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 friend	det
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wise	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Chinese	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Chinese	det
30	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 friend	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 trust	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 trust	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 trust	aux
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 trust	advmod
35	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wise	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 trust	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wise	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not favour	can	I	the Chinese ladies not said here		tree rules
2	is	present	Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies		Miss nsubj; a good friend of the Chinese parataxis; wise property	tree rules
3	be		Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies not said here			tree rules
4	trust	can	I	Miss	always property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	suggest		the Chinese ladies			nom suggestion «cognition 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 61

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 61