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title: The first thought was to do the editing which she planned, but every… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The first thought was to do the editing which she planned, but every attempt seemed to take from the stories that which made them hers. Who acts: first thought, editing, attempt, stories. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 115

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The first thought was to do the editing which she planned, but every attempt seemed to take from the stories that which made them hers.

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**Who acts:** first thought, editing, attempt, stories · **What happens:** be, plan, seem, take, make · **To what, where:** stories

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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 (first thought, editing, attempt, stories), 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:pg75089:3:115
# text = The first thought was to do the editing which she planned, but every attempt seemed to take from the stories that which made them hers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	editing	editing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the first thought |  |  |  |  | the editing *obj*; do *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plan** | past | the editing |  |  |  |  | Russell *nsubj* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | every attempt |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | every attempt *not said here* |  |  | the stories |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from story=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **make** | past | the stories | stories *= story* |  |  |  | Russell *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary her=Product |

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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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