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title: Is it not that I too may come in touch with the great pure Holy Ones? — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it not that I too may come in touch with the great pure Holy Ones? Who acts: heart, I. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 68

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Is it not that I too may come in touch with the great pure Holy Ones?

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**Who acts:** heart, I · **What happens:** be, not come · **To what, where:** touch

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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 (heart, I), 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:pg75089:10:68
# text = Is it not that I too may come in touch with the great pure Holy Ones?
1	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come** | may | I |  |  | touch with the great pure Holy Ones |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in touch=Location |

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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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