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title: Thus in a life of unselfish service of man was he made pure, until h… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus in a life of unselfish service of man was he made pure, until he reached that perfection which is absorption into the Divine. Who acts: life, sage, perfection. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 153

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Thus in a life of unselfish service of man was he made pure, until he reached that perfection which is absorption into the Divine.

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**Who acts:** life, sage, perfection · **What happens:** be, reach, service · **To what, where:** perfection, Divine, absorption, man

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, sage, perfection), 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:pg75089:10:153
# text = Thus in a life of unselfish service of man was he made pure, until he reached that perfection which is absorption into the Divine.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	unselfish	unselfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	perfection	perfection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	absorption	absorption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Divine	Divine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a life of unselfish service of man |  |  |  |  | sage *nsubj*; make, pure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | sage | that perfection and absorption |  | the Divine |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent perfection=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that perfection and absorption | absorption |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **service** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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