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title: To Miss Russell’s fellow-workers, who still have the joy of service… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: To Miss Russell’s fellow-workers, who still have the joy of service in the great old-new land which she loved; and who tread the unfamiliar ways with more strength and courage, because in many of them she was the Pathfinder, this little volume is affectionately dedicated by Who acts: fellow workers,
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 7

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To Miss Russell’s fellow-workers, who still have the joy of service in the great old-new land which she loved; and who tread the unfamiliar ways with more strength and courage, because in many of them she was the Pathfinder, this little volume is affectionately dedicated by

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**Who acts:** fellow workers, RUSSELL, many · **What happens:** have, love, tread, be, dedicate, joy · **To what, where:** joy, great old new land, unfamiliar ways, Pathfinder, little volume, service

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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 (fellow workers, RUSSELL, many), 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:pg75089:1:7
# text = To Miss Russell’s fellow-workers, who still have the joy of service in the great old-new land which she loved; and who tread the unfamiliar ways with more strength and courage, because in many of them she was the Pathfinder, this little volume is affectionately dedicated by
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
41	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Pathfinder	pathfinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
53	affectionately	affectionately	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	dedicated	dedicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
55	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Russell's fellow workers | the joy of service in the great old new land |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
| 2 | **love** | past | RUSSELL | the great old new land |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tread** | present | Russell's fellow workers | the unfamiliar ways |  |  |  | with more strength and courage | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Patient with strength=Instrument |
| 4 | **is** | past | many of strength |  |  | the Pathfinder |  | RUSSELL *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **dedicate** | present · passive |  | this little volume |  |  |  | affectionately *property* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **joy** |  |  | service in the great old new land |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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