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title: The pages have, therefore, been left with only such alterations as w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The pages have, therefore, been left with only such alterations as were necessary to complete sentences or make meaning clear, with no attempt at such improvement of literary style as she herself would have given them. Who acts: pages, literary style. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 117

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The pages have, therefore, been left with only such alterations as were necessary to complete sentences or make meaning clear, with no attempt at such improvement of literary style as she herself would have given them.

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**Who acts:** pages, literary style · **What happens:** have, leave, be, complete, make, mean · **To what, where:** sentences, page

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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 (pages, literary style), 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:pg75089:3:117
# text = The pages have, therefore, been left with only such alterations as were necessary to complete sentences or make meaning clear, with no attempt at such improvement of literary style as she herself would have given them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	alterations	alteration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
18	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	obj	_	_
22	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux	_	_
38	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the pages |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with such alterations; with no attempt at such improvement of literary style | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with alteration=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **complete** | to-infinitive |  | sentences |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **give** | would · perfect · passive |  | page |  |  |  | sentences *= sentence* *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme |
| 8 | **improve** |  | literary style |  |  |  |  |  | nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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