Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 62
Our friend, not content in keeping this means—the lecture and class courses—of reaching women confined to our Mission, one day a year ago invited the representatives of all the Missions in Peking to her study.
Who acts: friend, women, woman · What happens: keep, mean, reach, confine, invite, study · To what, where: this, lecture, Mission, representatives
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 (friend, women, woman), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 content | advmod |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friend | amod |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 keeping | mark |
| 7 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 content | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 keeping | obj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lecture | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lecture | det |
| 12 | lecture | lecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 courses | cc |
| 14 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 courses | compound |
| 15 | courses | course | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lecture | conj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 reaching | punct |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 reaching | mark |
| 18 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 means | advcl |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 confined | nsubj |
| 20 | confined | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reaching | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Mission | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Mission | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Mission | Mission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 confined | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 invited | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 day | nummod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 invited | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 invited | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 30 invited | advmod |
| 30 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reaching | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 representatives | det |
| 32 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 invited | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Missions | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 Missions | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Missions | det |
| 36 | Missions | mission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 representatives | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Peking | case |
| 38 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Missions | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 study | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 study | nmod:poss |
| 41 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 invited | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | Our friend not said here | this | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Our friend | the lecture and class courses | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | Our friend not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | confine | past | women | our Mission | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mission=Destination | ||||
| 5 | invite | past | Our friend not said here | the representatives of all Missions in Peking | day; year | to woman's study; ago property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representative=Recipient | ||
| 6 | study | woman | nom study «act transitive»: poss=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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