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title: But the things which hurt could no more be put outside of that wide-… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: But the things which hurt could no more be put outside of that wide-embracing life than could the things which gave a thrill of joy, or enraptured her with a sense of the beautiful. Who acts: things. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependenc
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 22

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But the things which hurt could no more be put outside of that wide-embracing life than could the things which gave a thrill of joy, or enraptured her with a sense of the beautiful.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** hurt, put, embrace, give, enrapture, thrill · **To what, where:** things, embracing life, thrill, Miss, joy

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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 (things), 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:pg75089:1:22
# text = But the things which hurt could no more be put outside of that wide-embracing life than could the things which gave a thrill of joy, or enraptured her with a sense of the beautiful.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	embracing	embrace	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thrill	thrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	enraptured	enrapture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | the things |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put** | could · passive |  | the things |  | embracing life  that |  | than the things | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside life=Destination |
| 3 | **embrace** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | the things | a thrill of joy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrill=Theme |
| 5 | **enrapture** | past | the things *not said here* | Miss |  |  |  | with a sense of the beautiful | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 6 | **thrill** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom thrill «feeling transitive»: of=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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