Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 19
Two secretaries of Legation, physicians of the Union Medical College, fellow-workers, and old-time friends were there; native pastors, Bible women, and church friends, servants and guards of honour sent by the military governor of the city and by the chief of the civil administration.
Who acts: time friends · What happens: be, send · To what, where: honour, Two secretaries
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 (time friends), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 secretaries | nummod |
| 2 | secretaries | secretary | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Legation | case |
| 4 | Legation | Legation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 secretaries | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 physicians | punct |
| 6 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secretaries | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 College | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 College | det |
| 9 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 College | compound |
| 10 | Medical | Medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 College | amod |
| 11 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 physicians | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 workers | punct |
| 13 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 workers | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fellow | punct |
| 15 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secretaries | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friends | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 friends | cc |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friends | compound |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secretaries | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 there | cop |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 friends | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pastors | punct |
| 25 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pastors | amod |
| 26 | pastors | pastor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secretaries | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 women | punct |
| 28 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 women | compound |
| 29 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secretaries | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 friends | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 friends | cc |
| 32 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 friends | compound |
| 33 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secretaries | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 servants | punct |
| 35 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 friends | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 guards | cc |
| 37 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 friends | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 honour | case |
| 39 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 guards | nmod |
| 40 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 honour | acl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 governor | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 governor | det |
| 43 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 governor | amod |
| 44 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sent | obl:agent |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 city | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 city | det |
| 47 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 governor | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 chief | cc |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 chief | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 chief | det |
| 51 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 city | conj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 administration | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 administration | det |
| 54 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 administration | amod |
| 55 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 chief | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 secretaries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | time friends not said here | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | participle | honour not said here | the military governor of the city and the chief of the civil administration obl:agent | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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