Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 64
This eventuated in a plan for fifty lectures, often a missionary and a Chinese lady speaking on the same subject, and thus reinforcing each other.
Who acts: Chinese lady · What happens: eventuate, speak, reinforce · To what, where: This, plan, same subject, each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chinese lady), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 eventuated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | eventuated | eventuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 plan | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eventuated | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 lectures | case |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lectures | nummod |
| 8 | lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plan | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 missionary | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 missionary | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 missionary | det |
| 12 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lectures | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lady | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lady | det |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lady | amod |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lectures | conj |
| 17 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lady | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 subject | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 subject | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 subject | amod |
| 21 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speaking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reinforcing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reinforcing | cc |
| 24 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 25 reinforcing | advmod |
| 25 | reinforcing | reinforce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 eventuated | advcl |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 25 reinforcing | obj |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eventuated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eventuate | participle · passive | This | a plan for fifty lectures and a missionary and a Chinese lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | a Chinese lady not said here | the same subject | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reinforce | gerund | each | thus property | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot each=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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