Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 3
Intimate friends went slowly down from the service to Ivy Lodge, the Stanleys’ pleasant home, where Miss Russell had been spending the vacation days and where she died.
Who acts: Intimate friends, Miss · What happens: go, spend, die · To what, where: Ivy Lodge, service
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 (Intimate friends, Miss), 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 | Intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friends | amod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 down | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 service | det |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Lodge | case |
| 10 | Ivy | Ivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lodge | compound |
| 11 | Lodge | Lodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 home | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Stanleys | det |
| 14 | Stanleys | Stanley | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 Stanleys | case |
| 16 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 home | amod |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Lodge | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spending | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 spending | advmod |
| 20 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 spending | nsubj |
| 21 | Russell | Russell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Miss | flat |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spending | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 spending | aux |
| 24 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 home | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 days | det |
| 26 | vacation | vacation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 days | compound |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spending | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 died | cc |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 died | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 died | nsubj |
| 31 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spending | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Intimate friends | Ivy Lodge | the service | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from service=Initial_Location to lodge=Destination | ||
| 2 | spend | past · perfect · progressive | Miss | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die | past | Miss | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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