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title: From those who disappointed her hope after long patience of love she… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: From those who disappointed her hope after long patience of love she might recoil into an attitude which seemed like prejudice. Who acts: RUSSELL, attitude. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 36

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From those who disappointed her hope after long patience of love she might recoil into an attitude which seemed like prejudice.

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**Who acts:** RUSSELL, attitude · **What happens:** disappoint, recoil, seem, hope · **To what, where:** hope, those, long patience, attitude

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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 (RUSSELL, attitude), 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:pg75089:1:36
# text = From those who disappointed her hope after long patience of love she might recoil into an attitude which seemed like prejudice.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disappointed	disappoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	recoil	recoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	attitude	attitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	prejudice	prejudice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappoint** | past |  | RUSSELL's hope |  | those | after long patience of love | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **recoil** | might | RUSSELL | long patience of love *not said here* |  | a attitude |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a attitude |  |  |  |  | like prejudice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hope** |  | RUSSELL |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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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