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title: The sum advanced to her was returned from her first earnings with th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The sum advanced to her was returned from her first earnings with the scrupulous integrity which, throughout her life, marked all her business dealings. Who acts: sum. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 15

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The sum advanced to her was returned from her first earnings with the scrupulous integrity which, throughout her life, marked all her business dealings.

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**Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** advance, return, mark, deal · **To what, where:** sum, first earnings, business dealings

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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 (sum), 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:pg75089:3:15
# text = The sum advanced to her was returned from her first earnings with the scrupulous integrity which, throughout her life, marked all her business dealings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	earnings	earning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	scrupulous	scrupulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dealings	dealing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | past | the sum |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past · passive | the sum *not said here* |  | sum | sum's first earnings with the scrupulous integrity |  | which throughout sum's life *obl* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: to she=Result from earning=Initial\_State |
| 3 | **mark** | past | the sum *not said here* | sum's business dealings |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dealing=Destination |
| 4 | **deal** |  | sum |  |  |  |  |  | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=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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