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title: For those who find their richest fruition in deeds accomplished, we… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: For those who find their richest fruition in deeds accomplished, we crave the threescore years and ten, crowded with achievement. Who acts: we, others. 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 42

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For those who find their richest fruition in deeds accomplished, we crave the threescore years and ten, crowded with achievement.

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**Who acts:** we, others · **What happens:** find, accomplish, crave, fruit · **To what, where:** richest fruition, deeds

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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 (we, others), 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:pg75089:1:42
# text = For those who find their richest fruition in deeds accomplished, we crave the threescore years and ten, crowded with achievement.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	fruition	fruition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	crave	crave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	threescore	threescore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	achievement	achievement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present |  | others's richest fruition |  | deeds |  | who *nsubj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruition=Topic |
| 2 | **accomplish** | participle |  | deeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **crave** | present | we |  |  |  | year | for those | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for that=Theme |
| 4 | **fruit** |  | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fruition «state 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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