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title: She gained two souls for the Master she loved and left a name that w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She gained two souls for the Master she loved and left a name that will be fragrant for long years in that village. Who acts: mother, name. 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 64

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She gained two souls for the Master she loved and left a name that will be fragrant for long years in that village.

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**Who acts:** mother, name · **What happens:** gain, love, leave, be · **To what, where:** two souls, Master, name, village

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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 (mother, name), 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:pg75089:13:64
# text = She gained two souls for the Master she loved and left a name that will be fragrant for long years in that village.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | mother | two souls |  |  |  | for the Master | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme for master=Source |
| 2 | **love** | past | mother | the Master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | past | mother *not said here* | a name |  | that village |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Theme in village=Location |
| 4 | **is** | future | a name |  |  |  | year | fragrant *property* | tree rules |

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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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