Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 6
She wore a white embroidered dress, and about her lay sprays of cypress vine.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: wear, embroider · To what, where: white embroidered dress
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dress | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dress | amod |
| 5 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dress | amod |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprays | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprays | cc |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 sprays | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sprays | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lay | lay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sprays | amod |
| 12 | sprays | spray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wore | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 vine | case |
| 14 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vine | compound |
| 15 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprays | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Miss | a white embroidered dress | about Miss's lay sprays of cypress vine | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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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