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title: It was sure to be daintily clean, for, whatever her surroundings, sh… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It was sure to be daintily clean, for, whatever her surroundings, she was a lady always and everywhere and tidiness was a part of herself. Who acts: It, Russell, lady. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 100

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It was sure to be daintily clean, for, whatever her surroundings, she was a lady always and everywhere and tidiness was a part of herself.

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**Who acts:** It, Russell, lady · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lady, part

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, 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 (It, Russell, lady), 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:pg75089:3:100
# text = It was sure to be daintily clean, for, whatever her surroundings, she was a lady always and everywhere and tidiness was a part of herself.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	daintily	daintily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	parataxis	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tidiness	tidiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | whatever  Russell's surroundings *parataxis*; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Russell | a lady and tidiness |  |  |  | tidiness *conj*; always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a lady and tidiness | a part |  |  |  | of Russell | 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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