--- title: It was a joy to see her pride in her poor home where everything was… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: It was a joy to see her pride in her poor home where everything was very clean and neat, and as she moved about getting breakfast I thanked God for this “new woman” in China. Who acts: Little, everything, joy, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, everything, joy, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:13:49 # text = It was a joy to see her pride in her poor home where everything was very clean and neat, and as she moved about getting breakfast I thanked God for this “new woman” in China. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 14 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 25 about about SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thanked thank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Little | a joy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | | joy's pride | | joy's poor home | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | everything | | | | | clean *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | everything *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move** | past | joy | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get** | gerund | joy *not said here* | breakfast | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breakfast=Stimulus | | 7 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | I | | God | China | | for new woman this | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for woman=Attribute | | 8 | **pride** | | joy | | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/50/) - ↑ back to [Literary Glory](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/13/)