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title: There were no farewells, no last expressions of a wish that this or… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: There were no farewells, no last expressions of a wish that this or that should be done, before she passed into the unconsciousness from which she never wakened here. Who acts: farewells, Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its de
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 113

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There were no farewells, no last expressions of a wish that this or that should be done, before she passed into the unconsciousness from which she never wakened here.

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**Who acts:** farewells, Russell · **What happens:** be, do, pass, not waken · **To what, where:** wish, unconsciousness

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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 (farewells, Russell), 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:pg75089:3:113
# text = There were no farewells, no last expressions of a wish that this or that should be done, before she passed into the unconsciousness from which she never wakened here.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	farewells	farewell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	expressions	expression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	appos	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	unconsciousness	unconsciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	wakened	waken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no farewells and no last expressions of a wish |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | should · passive |  | a wish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | Russell |  |  | the unconsciousness |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into unconsciousness=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **waken** | past | Russell |  |  | the unconsciousness; here |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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