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title: I thought she would be above farm work, and all these years she has… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought she would be above farm work, and all these years she has worked so hard and with never one word of complaint. Who acts: I, mother. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 37

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I thought she would be above farm work, and all these years she has worked so hard and with never one word of complaint.

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**Who acts:** I, mother · **What happens:** think, be, work, word · **To what, where:** farm work, complaint · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, mother), 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:pg75089:13:37
# text = I thought she would be above farm work, and all these years she has worked so hard and with never one word of complaint.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | mother |  |  | farm work |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present · perfect | mother |  |  |  | year | with one word of complaint; hard *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | complaint |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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