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title: It is common enough to find persons endowed with one, two, or even t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It is common enough to find persons endowed with one, two, or even three of those four great elemental qualities out of which the noblest souls are made—an inviolable conscience, profound intellect, irresistible will, and illimitable affections. Who acts: Pastor. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chines
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 3

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It is common enough to find persons endowed with one, two, or even three of those four great elemental qualities out of which the noblest souls are made—an inviolable conscience, profound intellect, irresistible will, and illimitable affections.

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**Who acts:** Pastor · **What happens:** be, find, endow, make · **To what, where:** persons, noblest souls, four great elemental qualities

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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 (Pastor), 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:pg75089:2:3
# text = It is common enough to find persons endowed with one, two, or even three of those four great elemental qualities out of which the noblest souls are made—an inviolable conscience, profound intellect, irresistible will, and illimitable affections.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	elemental	elemental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	inviolable	inviolable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	intellect	intellect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	irresistible	irresistible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	illimitable	illimitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	affections	affection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pastor |  |  |  |  | three of that four great elemental qualities *obl*; illimitable affections *obl*; common, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Pastor *not said here* | persons |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic |
| 3 | **endow** | participle |  | persons *not said here* |  |  |  | with one | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive |  | the noblest souls |  | that four great elemental qualities |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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