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title: But to meet a man or woman having all is as moving as it is uncommon. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: But to meet a man or woman having all is as moving as it is uncommon. Who acts: man, Pastor. 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 4

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But to meet a man or woman having all is as moving as it is uncommon.

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**Who acts:** man, Pastor · **What happens:** meet, have, move, be · **To what, where:** all

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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 (man, 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:pg75089:2:4
# text = But to meet a man or woman having all is as moving as it is uncommon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | a man or woman *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 3 | **move** | present · progressive | a man or woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Pastor |  |  |  |  | uncommon *property* | tree rules |

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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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