Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 65
Seeing, too, the great result following the union evangelistic meetings for men during fairs held in the spring and early summer at the temples, her fertile brain conceived a plan for a union effort on the part of all the various Christian workers for women.
Who acts: fertile brain · What happens: see, follow, hold, conceive · To what, where: great result, union, fairs, temples, plan · 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 (fertile brain), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Seeing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 result | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 result | amod |
| 7 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 meetings | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 union | det |
| 10 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 following | obj |
| 11 | evangelistic | evangelistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 meetings | amod |
| 12 | meetings | meeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 result | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meetings | nmod |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 fairs | case |
| 16 | fairs | fair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meetings | nmod |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fairs | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 spring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 summer | cc |
| 22 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 summer | amod |
| 23 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spring | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 temples | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 temples | det |
| 26 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 held | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conceived | punct |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 brain | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 brain | amod |
| 30 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conceived | nsubj |
| 31 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 meetings | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 plan | det |
| 33 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conceived | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 effort | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 effort | det |
| 36 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 effort | compound |
| 37 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 plan | nmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 part | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 part | det |
| 40 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 effort | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 workers | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 workers | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 workers | det |
| 44 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 workers | amod |
| 45 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 workers | amod |
| 46 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 part | nmod |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 women | case |
| 48 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 workers | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the great result evangelistic meetings for men during fairs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the union | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | participle | fairs not said here | the temples | spring | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at temple=Location | |||
| 4 | conceive | past | lady's fertile brain | a plan | for a union effort on the part of all various Christian workers for women | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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