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title: Her sympathy for those in trouble cost her a sort of agony, her love… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Her sympathy for those in trouble cost her a sort of agony, her love for her friends was an undying passion. Who acts: sympathy, sort, Righteousness. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 13

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Her sympathy for those in trouble cost her a sort of agony, her love for her friends was an undying passion.

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**Who acts:** sympathy, sort, Righteousness · **What happens:** cost, be, sort, love · **To what, where:** Righteousness, undying passion, agony

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sympathy, sort, Righteousness), 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:pg75089:2:13
# text = Her sympathy for those in trouble cost her a sort of agony, her love for her friends was an undying passion.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	undying	undying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | past | Righteousness's sympathy for those in trouble |  | Righteousness |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme she=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a sort of agony for Righteousness's friends and Righteousness's love | a undying passion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | agony |  |  |  | for Righteousness's friends | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
| 4 | **love** |  | Righteousness |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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