Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 73
Her love for little children—the new-born babe, the toddling child, the merry boy or girl, was peculiarly reverent and beautiful.
Who acts: love, Miss · What happens: bear, toddle, be, love
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 (love, 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 love | nmod:poss |
| 2 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reverent | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 babe | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 babe | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 born | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 new | punct |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 babe | amod |
| 11 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 child | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | toddling | toddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 babe | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boy | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 babe | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 girl | cc |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boy | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 reverent | cop |
| 24 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADV | _ | 25 reverent | advmod |
| 25 | reverent | reverent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reverent | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 reverent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | toddle | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Miss's love for little children and the born babe and the toddling child and the merry boy or girl | peculiarly, reverent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Miss's love for little children and the born babe and the toddling child and the merry boy or girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | love | Miss | for little children | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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