Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 1

Mrs. Mary P. Ament, who has been closely associated with Miss Russell during the past year, sends the following account of the last loving services rendered to our beloved missionary:

Who acts: Mary P. Ament · What happens: associate, send, follow, render, account · To what, where: Mary P. Ament, following account, last loving services, beloved missionary

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary P. Ament), 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	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mary	compound
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ament	compound
3	P.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ament	compound
4	Ament	ament	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 associated	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 associated	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 associated	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 associated	aux:pass
9	closely	closely	ADV	_	10 associated	advmod
10	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Ament	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 Russell	case
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Russell	compound
13	Russell	Russell	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 associated	obl
14	during	during	ADP	_	17 year	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 year	det
16	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 year	amod
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 associated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ament	punct
19	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 account	det
21	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 account	amod
22	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 services	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 services	det
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 services	amod
26	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 services	amod
27	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 account	nmod
28	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 services	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 missionary	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 missionary	nmod:poss
31	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 missionary	amod
32	missionary	missionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rendered	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	associate	present · perfect · passive		Mary P. Ament		year	with Miss Russell; closely property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with russell=Co-Patient
2	send	present	Mary P. Ament	the following account of the last loving services				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
3	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	render	participle		the last loving services not said here	our beloved missionary			vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to missionary=Recipient
5	account			the last loving services				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 1