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title: It had been her cherished plan to edit them carefully, add to them o… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 109

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It had been her cherished plan to edit them carefully, add to them other stories of Chinese life as she had seen it, and make a volume which should be the contribution of her leisure, after retirement from active work, to the new understanding of the people whom she loved by those of her own land.

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**Who acts:** pencil, Russell, volume · **What happens:** cherish, be, edit, add, see, make · **To what, where:** cherished plan, manuscripts, other stories, pencil, volume, contribution

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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 (pencil, Russell, volume), 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:pg75089:3:109
# text = It had been her cherished plan to edit them carefully, add to them other stories of Chinese life as she had seen it, and make a volume which should be the contribution of her leisure, after retirement from active work, to the new understanding of the people whom she loved by those of her own land.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	edit	edit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
52	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	obj	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
55	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	54	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
59	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cherish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | pencil | Russell's cherished plan |  |  |  | Russell *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **edit** | to-infinitive |  | manuscripts *= manuscript* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | other stories of Chinese life | manuscripts *= manuscript* |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient to they=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | Russell | pencil |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive |  | a volume |  |  |  | retirement from active work *conj*; the new understanding of the people *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset volume=Product |
| 7 | **is a** | should | a volume | the contribution |  |  |  | of Russell's leisure | tree rules |
| 8 | **love** | past | Russell | the people |  |  |  | by the people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 9 | **understand** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition 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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