Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 9
One never could think of her as being a bachelor maid, she was so womanly.
Who acts: One, Peking · What happens: not think, be
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 (One, Peking), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 think | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 maid | case |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 maid | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 maid | det |
| 10 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maid | compound |
| 11 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 womanly | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 womanly | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 womanly | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 womanly | advmod |
| 16 | womanly | womanly | ADV | _ | 4 think | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | One | of Peking | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | as a bachelor maid | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Peking | womanly property | tree rules |
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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