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title: How she did want to show her love; later on, when the neighbouring w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: How she did want to show her love; later on, when the neighbouring women came in for a little service she came and sat with her arms about me. Who acts: joy, neighbouring women. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 51

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How she did want to show her love; later on, when the neighbouring women came in for a little service she came and sat with her arms about me.

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**Who acts:** joy, neighbouring women · **What happens:** want, show, neighbour, come in, come, sit · **To what, where:** love, little service

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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 (joy, neighbouring women), 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:pg75089:13:51
# text = How she did want to show her love; later on, when the neighbouring women came in for a little service she came and sat with her arms about me.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | joy |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | joy *not said here* | joy's love |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come in** | past | the neighbouring women |  |  |  |  | for a little service; late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | joy | a little service *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location service=Theme |
| 6 | **sit** | past | the neighbouring women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with joy's arms; about me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about i=Location |
| 7 | **love** |  | joy |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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