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title: If this seems like overpraise to you, just let it go at that. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: If this seems like overpraise to you, just let it go at that. Who acts: this, you, room. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 21

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If this seems like overpraise to you, just let it go at that.

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**Who acts:** this, you, room · **What happens:** seem, let, go · **To what, where:** you, room, that

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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 (this, you, room), 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:pg75089:2:21
# text = If this seems like overpraise to you, just let it go at that.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	overpraise	overpraise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this |  | you |  |  | like overpraise | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | room *not said here* |  |  | that |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at that=Location |

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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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