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title: During a memorable week of one of her vacations spent in our summer… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: During a memorable week of one of her vacations spent in our summer cottage we were made to marvel at her insight into human nature and into the great problems of life. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, with i
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 16

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During a memorable week of one of her vacations spent in our summer cottage we were made to marvel at her insight into human nature and into the great problems of life.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** spend, make, marvel · **To what, where:** vacations, summer cottage, we, insight

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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 (we), 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:pg75089:2:16
# text = During a memorable week of one of her vacations spent in our summer cottage we were made to marvel at her insight into human nature and into the great problems of life.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	memorable	memorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	vacations	vacation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	marvel	marvel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	insight	insight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | participle |  | Righteousness's vacations *not said here* |  | our summer cottage |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marvel** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | Righteousness's insight |  | into human nature and the great problems of life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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