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title: Those whose gifts lie in loving and befriending may sooner rest from… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Those whose gifts lie in loving and befriending may sooner rest from their labours, for their works do follow them, and love and friendship are deathless. Who acts: gifts, works, love, deeds. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree a
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 43

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Those whose gifts lie in loving and befriending may sooner rest from their labours, for their works do follow them, and love and friendship are deathless.

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**Who acts:** gifts, works, love, deeds · **What happens:** lie, befriend, follow, be, work · **To what, where:** rest, loving, 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 (gifts, works, love, deeds), 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:pg75089:1:43
# text = Those whose gifts lie in loving and befriending may sooner rest from their labours, for their works do follow them, and love and friendship are deathless.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	befriending	befriend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	deathless	deathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | that gifts | rest |  | loving |  | from deeds's labours | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loving=Location |
| 2 | **befriend** | gerund | that gifts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | present · do-support | deeds's works | deeds *= deed* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | love and friendship |  |  |  |  | deathless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** |  | deeds *= deed* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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