---
title: She has ever been and ever more must be a pure, inspiring presence i… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She has ever been and ever more must be a pure, inspiring presence in our lives. Who acts: Righteousness. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/2/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/2/) / 24

# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 24

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She has ever been and ever more must be a pure, inspiring presence in our lives.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Righteousness · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** more pure inspiring presence, lives

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Righteousness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:2:24
# text = She has ever been and ever more must be a pure, inspiring presence in our lives.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	inspiring	inspiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present · perfect | Righteousness |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | must | Righteousness *not said here* | a more pure inspiring presence |  | our lives | ever |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/2/23/)
- next →: [Nellie N. Russell, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/1/)
- ↑ back to [An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/2/)