Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 2
She was an only daughter and having no girl companions came to spend most of her time with her brothers.
Who acts: girl, girl companions · What happens: be, have, come, spend · To what, where: only daughter, most
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, girl companions), 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 | 5 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daughter | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | amod |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 having | cc |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 daughter | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 companions | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 companions | compound |
| 10 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 having | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spend | mark |
| 13 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | xcomp |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 spend | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 time | nmod:poss |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 most | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 brothers | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spend | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl | a only daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | no girl companions | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | no girl companions not said here | most of girl's time | with girl's brothers | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset |
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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