Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 77

She loved, too, the social life, being always most punctilious about her calls at the Legations and Customs, and on her Chinese friends of official families.

Who acts: Miss · What happens: love, be, call · To what, where: social life, Legations · 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 (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 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 loved	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 life	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 life	det
7	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 life	amod
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 punctilious	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 punctilious	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 punctilious	advmod
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 punctilious	advmod
13	punctilious	punctilious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loved	parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 calls	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 calls	nmod:poss
16	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 punctilious	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 Legations	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Legations	det
19	Legations	legation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 calls	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Customs	cc
21	Customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Legations	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 friends	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 friends	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 friends	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friends	nmod:poss
26	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 friends	amod
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 punctilious	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 families	case
29	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 families	amod
30	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 friends	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Miss	the social life			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	gerund				about Miss's calls at the Legations and Customs; Miss's Chinese friends of official families conj; always, punctilious property	tree rules
3	call		Miss		the Legations and Customs		nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent at=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 77