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title: As a result of this intimate acquaintance we learned to look upon he… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: As a result of this intimate acquaintance we learned to look upon her as an unique and even wonderful woman. Who acts: we. 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 7

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As a result of this intimate acquaintance we learned to look upon her as an unique and even wonderful woman.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** learn, look, result · **To what, where:** intimate acquaintance

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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 (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:pg75089:2:7
# text = As a result of this intimate acquaintance we learned to look upon her as an unique and even wonderful woman.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | we |  |  |  |  | as a result of this intimate acquaintance | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Nellie; as a unique woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | this intimate acquaintance |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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