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title: Those of us in Peking who walk where Miss Russell’s feet have trod s… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Those of us in Peking who walk where Miss Russell’s feet have trod still see the spiritual blossoming of that beautiful life. Who acts: Those. 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 44

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Those of us in Peking who walk where Miss Russell’s feet have trod still see the spiritual blossoming of that beautiful life.

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**Who acts:** Those · **What happens:** walk, tread, see · **To what, where:** feet, spiritual blossoming

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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 (Those), 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:pg75089:1:44
# text = Those of us in Peking who walk where Miss Russell’s feet have trod still see the spiritual blossoming of that beautiful life.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	trod	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blossoming	blossoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | Those of us in Peking |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tread** | present · perfect · passive |  | Miss's feet |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present |  | the spiritual blossoming of beautiful life  that |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blossoming=Stimulus |

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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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