Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 66
Tents were erected, seats rented, tea served, and there large and small groups of women heard the Gospel message for the first time.
Who acts: seats, tea, small groups · What happens: erect, rent, serve, hear · To what, where: Tents, Gospel message
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 (seats, tea, small groups), 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 | Tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 erected | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 erected | aux:pass |
| 3 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rented | punct |
| 5 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rented | nsubj |
| 6 | rented | rent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 erected | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 served | punct |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 served | nsubj |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rented | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 large | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 large | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 large | expl |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 erected | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 groups | amod |
| 16 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 women | case |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 groups | nmod |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 large | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 message | det |
| 21 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 message | compound |
| 22 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 erected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | past · passive | Tents | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | rent | past | seats | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | tea | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | small groups of women | the Gospel message | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus |
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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