Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 27
God has come very near and taken our Great Missionary from us.
Who acts: God · What happens: come, take · To what, where: Great 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 (God), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 near | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taken | cc |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 come | conj |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Missionary | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Missionary | amod |
| 10 | Missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 taken | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | God | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | God not said here | our Great Missionary | from us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent missionary=Theme from we=Initial_Location |
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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