Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 69
The loss to our work in Peking only those who knew and saw what she was able to do and to inspire done can fathom.
Who acts: loss, our · What happens: know, see, be, do, inspire, fathom · To what, where: Peking · 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 (loss, our), 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 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Peking | case |
| 7 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 knew | advmod |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 knew | det |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 fathom | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fathom | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 inspire | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 inspire | mark |
| 22 | inspire | inspire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | conj |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 inspire | xcomp |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fathom | aux |
| 25 | fathom | fathom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the loss to our work in Peking | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the loss to our work in Peking not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | loss | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | loss not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | inspire | to-infinitive | loss not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | participle | loss not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fathom | can | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | work | our | Peking | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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