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title: “Give me the grace to bear my burden so That men may learn the secre… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Give me the grace to bear my burden so That men may learn the secret of my power, And meet each trouble with their face aglow, And voice their praises in the midnight hour; For when our helplessness cries unto thee, Thy power descends in Christ to set us free.” Who acts: you, men, helplessness, pow
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 1

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“Give me the grace to bear my burden so That men may learn the secret of my power, And meet each trouble with their face aglow, And voice their praises in the midnight hour; For when our helplessness cries unto thee, Thy power descends in Christ to set us free.”

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**Who acts:** you, men, helplessness, power, my · **What happens:** give, bear, learn, meet, cry, descend · **To what, where:** grace, me, burden, secret, trouble, Christ

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men, helplessness, power), 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:pg75089:13:1
# text = “Give me the grace to bear my burden so That men may learn the secret of my power, And meet each trouble with their face aglow, And voice their praises in the midnight hour; For when our helplessness cries unto thee, Thy power descends in Christ to set us free.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	aglow	aglow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	For	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	43	mark	_	_
41	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	helplessness	helplessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	descends	descend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
54	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the grace | me |  |  | voice and men's praises in the midnight hour *parataxis* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient grace=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my burden |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient |
| 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | may | that men | the secret of my power |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | present |  | each trouble |  |  |  | with men's face | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme with face=Instrument |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | our helplessness |  |  |  |  | unto thee | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **descend** *in a quote* | present | Thy power |  |  | Christ |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **set** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Thy power *not said here* | us |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient we=Result |
| 8 | **burden** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **praise** *in a quote* |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | in the midnight hour |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |

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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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