Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 79

She heartily enjoyed intercourse with the cultured ladies and gentlemen of these circles and was often able to bring them into touch with her Manchu and Chinese friends with real advantage to both sides.

Who acts: Miss · What happens: enjoy, culture, be, bring · To what, where: intercourse, circles, touch

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	3 enjoyed	nsubj
2	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	3 enjoyed	advmod
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoyed	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 ladies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladies	det
7	cultured	culture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ladies	amod
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 intercourse	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gentlemen	cc
10	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ladies	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 circles	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 circles	det
13	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gentlemen	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 able	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 able	advmod
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enjoyed	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bring	mark
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bring	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 touch	case
22	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bring	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 Manchu	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Manchu	nmod:poss
25	Manchu	Manchu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 touch	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 friends	cc
27	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 friends	amod
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Manchu	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 advantage	case
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 advantage	amod
31	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 friends	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 sides	case
33	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	34 sides	det
34	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bring	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	Miss	intercourse		with the cultured ladies and gentlemen of this circles; heartily property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer intercourse=Stimulus
2	culture	participle					tree rules
3	is	past	Miss not said here			able, often property	tree rules
4	bring	to-infinitive	Miss not said here	circles = circle	touch with Miss's Manchu and Chinese friends with real advantage	to both sides	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into touch=Destination

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 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 79