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description: Hers was the gift of making even the brief, formal call an opportunity for speaking the word which might lead to an upward look or an outward vision. Who acts: Miss, gift, opportunity, word. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree an
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 18

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Hers was the gift of making even the brief, formal call an opportunity for speaking the word which might lead to an upward look or an outward vision.

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**Who acts:** Miss, gift, opportunity, word · **What happens:** be, make, call, speak, lead · **To what, where:** gift, brief, opportunity, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, gift, opportunity, word), 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:pg75089:1:18
# text = Hers was the gift of making even the brief, formal call an opportunity for speaking the word which might lead to an upward look or an outward vision.
1	Hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brief	brief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Miss | the gift |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the gift *not said here* | the brief |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brief=Product |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  | a opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opportunity=Recipient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | the word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | might | the word |  |  |  |  | to a upward look or a outward vision | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to look=Patient |

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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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