Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 71
She sought the help of men and in some way drew out all their manhood and chivalry by her belief and trust in it.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: seek, draw out, help, believe · To what, where: help, manhood, way, men
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 (Miss), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drew | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sought | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 drew | compound:prt |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 manhood | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 manhood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chivalry | cc |
| 17 | chivalry | chivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 manhood | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 belief | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 belief | nmod:poss |
| 20 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trust | cc |
| 22 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belief | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trust | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Miss | the help of men | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw out | past | Miss not said here | men's manhood and chivalry | some way | by Miss's belief and trust in trust | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme in way=Destination | ||
| 3 | help | men | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | believe | Miss | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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