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title: Before many years Miss Russell knew the life histories of most of th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Before many years Miss Russell knew the life histories of most of the thousand Christians connected with the Peking Congregational churches and outstations, knew them with her heart as well as her head. Who acts: Miss, Christians. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russe
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 15

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Before many years Miss Russell knew the life histories of most of the thousand Christians connected with the Peking Congregational churches and outstations, knew them with her heart as well as her head.

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**Who acts:** Miss, Christians · **What happens:** know, connect · **To what, where:** life histories, Christians

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:1:15
# text = Before many years Miss Russell knew the life histories of most of the thousand Christians connected with the Peking Congregational churches and outstations, knew them with her heart as well as her head.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
15	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	connected	connect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	Congregational	Congregational	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	outstations	outstation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	34	cc	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Miss | the life histories |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus |
| 2 | **connect** | past | Christians | the life histories *not said here* |  |  |  | of most; of the thousand; with the Peking churches and outstations | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent history=Patient with church=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **know** | past |  | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  | with Miss's heart; Miss's head *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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