Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 4
As we entered the room and saw our friend of many years, she seemed asleep, yet in repose one felt the power of her personality, her high purpose, her dignity.
Who acts: we, Miss, one · What happens: enter, see, seem, repose, feel, purpose · To what, where: room, friend, power
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 (we, Miss, one), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seemed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 friend | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 repose | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 repose | cc |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 repose | mark |
| 20 | repose | repose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 repose | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 power | det |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 personality | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 personality | nmod:poss |
| 27 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 power | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 purpose | punct |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 purpose | amod |
| 31 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 power | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dignity | punct |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dignity | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 power | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | we | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | we not said here | our friend of many years | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Miss | asleep property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | repose | infinitive | Miss not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | one | the power of Miss's personality and Miss's high purpose and Miss's dignity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 6 | purpose | Miss | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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