Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 44
Now, we are respected and held up as models.
What happens: respect, hold up · To what, where: we
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 respected | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 respected | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 respected | aux:pass |
| 5 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 held | cc |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 respected | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 held | compound:prt |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 models | case |
| 10 | models | model | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 respected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | present · passive | we | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hold up | participle | as models | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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