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title: No word had come from her husband and no word of their life-story di… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: No word had come from her husband and no word of their life-story did the mother tell her son. Who acts: word, mother. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 10

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No word had come from her husband and no word of their life-story did the mother tell her son.

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**Who acts:** word, mother · **What happens:** come, tell · **To what, where:** word, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, mother), 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:pg75089:18:10
# text = No word had come from her husband and no word of their life-story did the mother tell her son.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | no word |  |  |  |  | from mother's husband and no word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from husband=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the mother | no word *not said here* | mother's son |  |  | of words's life story | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |

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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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