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title: Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression were her very… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression were her very own. Who acts: Characteristic phrases. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 116

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Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression were her very own.

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**Who acts:** Characteristic phrases · **What happens:** be

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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 (Characteristic phrases), 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:pg75089:3:116
# text = Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression were her very own.
1	Characteristic	Characteristic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Characteristic phrases and little turns of expression |  |  |  |  | Russell *nmod:poss*; own *property* | 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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