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title: Every spring a company of those who loved her, and looked upon her a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Every spring a company of those who loved her, and looked upon her as their leader, meet at her grave to sing Christian hymns, place flowers upon the mound, and recall the beautiful life from which they learned how full of fruitfulness and blessing fifty years of Christian discipleship could be made
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 125

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Every spring a company of those who loved her, and looked upon her as their leader, meet at her grave to sing Christian hymns, place flowers upon the mound, and recall the beautiful life from which they learned how full of fruitfulness and blessing fifty years of Christian discipleship could be made.

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**Who acts:** you, women, blessing · **What happens:** love, look, meet, sing, recall, learn · **To what, where:** desire, grave, Christian hymns, beautiful life

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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 (you, women, blessing), 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:pg75089:3:125
# text = Every spring a company of those who loved her, and looked upon her as their leader, meet at her grave to sing Christian hymns, place flowers upon the mound, and recall the beautiful life from which they learned how full of fruitfulness and blessing fifty years of Christian discipleship could be made.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	recall	recall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
44	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	ccomp	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	fruitfulness	fruitfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
48	blessing	bless	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	csubj	_	_
49	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	discipleship	discipleship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past |  | desire |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon desire; as women's leader | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | desire's grave | spring |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Christian hymns and place flowers upon the mound |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme |
| 5 | **recall** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the beautiful life |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 6 | **learn** | past | women *= woman* |  |  | the beautiful life |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from which=Source |
| 7 | **bless** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **make** | could · passive | blessing |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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