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title: My young readers who have given your money for Bridgman School and h… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: My young readers who have given your money for Bridgman School and helped to educate this dear girl, does the result of your investment satisfy you? Who acts: result, your. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 68

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My young readers who have given your money for Bridgman School and helped to educate this dear girl, does the result of your investment satisfy you?

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**Who acts:** result, your · **What happens:** give, help, educate, do, satisfy, invest · **To what, where:** young readers, dear girl, result, you

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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 (result, your), 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:pg75089:13:68
# text = My young readers who have given your money for Bridgman School and helped to educate this dear girl, does the result of your investment satisfy you?
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Bridgman	Bridgman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	School	School	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	educate	educate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | My young readers |  |  |  | for Bridgman School; who *nsubj*; your money *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient money=Theme for school=Asset |
| 2 | **help** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **educate** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | this dear girl |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | present |  | the result |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Eventuality |
| 5 | **satisfy** | infinitive | the result *not said here* | you |  |  |  | of your investment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 6 | **invest** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom investment «act 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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