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title: Sometimes she walked so far with others into the Valley of Baca that… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she walked so far with others into the Valley of Baca that no strength was left to make it a well. Who acts: RUSSELL. 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 37

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Sometimes she walked so far with others into the Valley of Baca that no strength was left to make it a well.

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**Who acts:** RUSSELL · **What happens:** walk, leave, make · **To what, where:** that, Valley

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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), 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:pg75089:1:37
# text = Sometimes she walked so far with others into the Valley of Baca that no strength was left to make it a well.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Baca	Baca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | RUSSELL |  |  |  |  | with others; far, sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | that |  | the Valley of Baca |  | no strength *nsubj:pass* | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source into valley=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Valley |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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