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title: She won the admiration of the school district by her industry and ca… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She won the admiration of the school district by her industry and capacity for work and service both in school and out. Who acts: sum. 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 16

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She won the admiration of the school district by her industry and capacity for work and service both in school and out.

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**Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** win, admire · **To what, where:** admiration, school district

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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:pg75089:3:16
# text = She won the admiration of the school district by her industry and capacity for work and service both in school and out.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	both	both	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **win** | past | sum | the admiration of the school district |  |  |  | by sum's industry and capacity for work and service; both *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Eventuality |
| 2 | **admire** |  |  | the school district |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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