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title: Some of the greatest of this land have passed through much privation… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the greatest of this land have passed through much privation and suffering to attain this end. 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 4

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Some of the greatest of this land have passed through much privation and suffering to attain this end.

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**What happens:** pass, suffer, attain · **To what, where:** Some, much privation, end

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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: 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:pg75089:13:4
# text = Some of the greatest of this land have passed through much privation and suffering to attain this end.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	privation	privation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | Some of the greatest of this land |  | much privation |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through privation=Destination |
| 2 | **suffer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **attain** | to-infinitive |  | this end |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |

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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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