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title: An Appreciation of Nellie N. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: An Appreciation of Nellie N. 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 47

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An Appreciation of Nellie N.

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**To what, where:** Appreciation

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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: 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:pg75089:1:47
# text = An Appreciation of Nellie N.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Appreciation	appreciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Nellie	Nellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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