Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 72
Her nature never was distorted by her work, but her power to love and enter into others’ lives increased with every passing year.
Who acts: work, Miss · What happens: not distort, love, enter, increase, work · To what, where: nature, lives
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 (work, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nature | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distorted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 distorted | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distorted | aux:pass |
| 5 | distorted | distort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 work | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 work | nmod:poss |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distorted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 power | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 power | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 work | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 love | mark |
| 14 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 power | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 enter | cc |
| 16 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 love | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 lives | case |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 others | case |
| 20 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 enter | obl |
| 21 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lives | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 year | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 year | det |
| 24 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 year | compound |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 increased | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 distorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not distort | past · passive | Miss's work but Miss's power | Miss's nature | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Material | ||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive | Miss's work but Miss's power not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | enter | infinitive | Miss's work but Miss's power not said here | others's lives | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | increase | participle | others's lives not said here | year | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | work | Miss | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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