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title: It was a cherished hope to have her with us when her work was done,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a cherished hope to have her with us when her work was done, but it was too good and great a hope for realization here. Who acts: room, Righteousness. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and th
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 20

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It was a cherished hope to have her with us when her work was done, but it was too good and great a hope for realization here.

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**Who acts:** room, Righteousness · **What happens:** cherish, be, have, do, work · **To what, where:** cherished hope, Righteousness, work

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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 (room, 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:pg75089:2:20
# text = It was a cherished hope to have her with us when her work was done, but it was too good and great a hope for realization here.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	realization	realization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cherish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | room | a cherished hope |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | Righteousness |  |  |  | with us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past · passive |  | Righteousness's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past | room |  |  | here |  | a hope for realization *nsubj*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **work** |  | Righteousness |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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