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description: For four years she was an inmate of our home and, during all her remarkable career as a missionary in China, we kept in the closest possible touch with her and her work. Who acts: Nellie, we. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russel
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 6

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For four years she was an inmate of our home and, during all her remarkable career as a missionary in China, we kept in the closest possible touch with her and her work.

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**Who acts:** Nellie, we · **What happens:** be, keep, work · **To what, where:** inmate, closest possible touch

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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 (Nellie, we), 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:pg75089:2:6
# text = For four years she was an inmate of our home and, during all her remarkable career as a missionary in China, we kept in the closest possible touch with her and her work.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inmate	inmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
29	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nellie | a inmate and Nellie's remarkable career as a missionary in China |  |  |  | of our home; Nellie's remarkable career as a missionary in China *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | we |  |  | the closest possible touch with Nellie | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location |
| 3 | **work** |  | Nellie |  |  |  |  |  | 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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