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title: The tragedy of 1900 brought to one of such wideness and depth of fri… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The tragedy of 1900 brought to one of such wideness and depth of friendship and intimate knowledge a sorrow whose outward tokens were whitening hair and a physically weakened constitution. Who acts: tragedy, sorrow. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, wi
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 23

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The tragedy of 1900 brought to one of such wideness and depth of friendship and intimate knowledge a sorrow whose outward tokens were whitening hair and a physically weakened constitution.

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**Who acts:** tragedy, sorrow · **What happens:** bring, whiten, weaken · **To what, where:** one, hair

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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 (tragedy, sorrow), 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:pg75089:1:23
# text = The tragedy of 1900 brought to one of such wideness and depth of friendship and intimate knowledge a sorrow whose outward tokens were whitening hair and a physically weakened constitution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wideness	wideness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tokens	token	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	whitening	whiten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	physically	physically	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	weakened	weaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the tragedy of 1900 |  | one of such wideness and depth of friendship and intimate knowledge |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to one=Destination |
| 2 | **whiten** | past · progressive | a sorrow | hair and a weakened constitution |  |  |  | outward tokens *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **weaken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | physically *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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