Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 22
There, a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher Ch’uan taking part, and a prayer and a hymn.
Who acts: short service · What happens: take · To what, where: part
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 (short service), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 taking | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 service | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 service | amod |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Jen | case |
| 7 | Pastor | Pastor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jen | compound |
| 8 | Jen | Jen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 service | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Teacher | cc |
| 10 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jen | conj |
| 11 | Ch’uan | Ch'uan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Teacher | flat |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prayer | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 prayer | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 prayer | det |
| 17 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hymn | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hymn | det |
| 20 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prayer | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a short service with Pastor Jen and Teacher | part | there | a prayer and a hymn conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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