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title: Everything was done that could be done to save her husband; her fath… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything was done that could be done to save her husband; her father had lost much of his property and standing, and could help but little. Who acts: Everything, father. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 76

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Everything was done that could be done to save her husband; her father had lost much of his property and standing, and could help but little.

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**Who acts:** Everything, father · **What happens:** be, do, save, lose, help · **To what, where:** that, husband, much

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, father), 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:pg75089:17:76
# text = Everything was done that could be done to save her husband; her father had lost much of his property and standing, and could help but little.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | done *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | could · passive | Everything *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | Everything *not said here* | Ying's husband |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | Ying's father | much of father's property and standing |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality |
| 5 | **help** | could | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** |  | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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