Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 63
There she unfolded a plan by which these might be repeated in every Mission and each of its centres of work in the city.
Who acts: woman, plan · What happens: unfold, repeat · To what, where: plan, these, Mission
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 (woman, plan), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 unfolded | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unfolded | nsubj |
| 3 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unfolded | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 repeated | obl |
| 8 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 repeated | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 repeated | aux:pass |
| 11 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 plan | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Mission | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Mission | det |
| 14 | Mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeated | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 each | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Mission | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 centres | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 centres | nmod:poss |
| 19 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 each | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 centres | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 city | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 work | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unfolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | past | woman | a plan | there | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | |||
| 2 | repeat | might · passive | a plan | these | every Mission each of plan's centres of work in the city | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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