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title: There could be no more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildi… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: There could be no more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings which would help to make her dreams come true. Who acts: more fitting memorial, buildings, dreams, memorial. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 32

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There could be no more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings which would help to make her dreams come true.

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**Who acts:** more fitting memorial, buildings, dreams, memorial · **What happens:** be, help, make, come, dream

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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 (more fitting memorial, buildings, dreams, memorial), 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:pg75089:1:32
# text = There could be no more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings which would help to make her dreams come true.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	fitting	fitting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | could | more fitting memorial for Miss Russell than buildings |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | would | buildings |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | buildings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present | memorial's dreams |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dream** |  | memorial |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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