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title: Although she had never seen any of the family this was considered ve… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Although she had never seen any of the family this was considered very meritorious in Jade, and she was held up as a model girl to all others in the region. Who acts: Jade. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree an
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 31

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Although she had never seen any of the family this was considered very meritorious in Jade, and she was held up as a model girl to all others in the region.

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**Who acts:** Jade · **What happens:** not see, consider, hold up · **To what, where:** any, Jade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jade), 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:pg75089:15:31
# text = Although she had never seen any of the family this was considered very meritorious in Jade, and she was held up as a model girl to all others in the region.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	meritorious	meritorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jade	Jade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | Jade |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consider** | past · passive |  | any of the family |  | Jade |  | this *nsubj:pass*; meritorious *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **hold up** | past · passive |  | Jade |  |  |  | as a model girl; to all others in the region | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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