Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 15
These words are full of comfort, but as yet we feel the need of her ministry so keenly that only the knowledge that the same God who strengthened her is with us still enables us to move forward and conserve what we may of her lifework.
Who acts: words, we, same God, us, knowledge · What happens: be, feel, strengthen, enable, move forward, need · To what, where: need, knowledge, us, ministry
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 (words, we, same God, us), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 comfort | case |
| 6 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 feel | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 yet | case |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 feel | obl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 need | det |
| 14 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ministry | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ministry | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ministry | ministry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 need | nmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 keenly | advmod |
| 19 | keenly | keenly | ADV | _ | 12 feel | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 conserve | mark |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 knowledge | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knowledge | det |
| 23 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 conserve | nsubj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 strengthened | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 God | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 God | amod |
| 27 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 strengthened | nsubj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 strengthened | nsubj |
| 29 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 knowledge | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 strengthened | obj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 conserve | cop |
| 32 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 35 enables | mark |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 enables | nsubj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 enables | advmod |
| 35 | enables | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 conserve | advcl |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 enables | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 move | mark |
| 38 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 conserve | advcl |
| 39 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 38 move | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 conserve | cc |
| 41 | conserve | conserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 keenly | advcl |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 conserve | obj |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 may | nsubj |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 what | acl:relcl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 lifework | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 lifework | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lifework | lifework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 may | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this words | of comfort; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | we | the need of messenger's ministry | keenly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Theme | |||
| 3 | strengthen | past | the same God | the knowledge | messenger obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | enable | present | us | us | still | tree rules | |||
| 5 | move forward | to-infinitive | the knowledge not said here | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the knowledge | what obj; conserve property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | need | messenger's ministry | nom need «state 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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