Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 67
The result has been that several of the Missions have opened new centres of work in the city, near city gates, or in the suburbs.
What happens: open · To what, where: result
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 result | det |
| 2 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 opened | mark |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Missions | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Missions | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Missions | det |
| 9 | Missions | mission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | aux |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 centres | amod |
| 13 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 centres | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gates | punct |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 gates | case |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gates | compound |
| 22 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 centres | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 suburbs | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 suburbs | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 suburbs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 suburbs | det |
| 27 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 centres | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present · perfect · passive | the result | the several Missions nsubj:pass; new centres of work in the city and city gates or the suburbs obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme centre=Destination |
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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