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title: Naturally sensitive not only to pain but to danger and to all that w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Naturally sensitive not only to pain but to danger and to all that was unsightly or repulsive, her sufferings during those two months cannot be measured. Who acts: sorrow. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 26

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Naturally sensitive not only to pain but to danger and to all that was unsightly or repulsive, her sufferings during those two months cannot be measured.

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**Who acts:** sorrow · **What happens:** be, not measure, suffer · **To what, where:** sensitive pain

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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 (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:pg75089:1:26
# text = Naturally sensitive not only to pain but to danger and to all that was unsightly or repulsive, her sufferings during those two months cannot be measured.
1	Naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	unsightly	unsightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	repulsive	repulsive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unsightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **measure** | can · passive |  | sensitive pain but danger and sorrow's sufferings during that two months |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 4 | **suffer** |  | sorrow |  |  |  | during that two months |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent during=obl |

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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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