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title: With this as a help she was able to meet all other expenses by what… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With this as a help she was able to meet all other expenses by what she earned during vacations. 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 21

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With this as a help she was able to meet all other expenses by what she earned during vacations.

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**Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** be, meet, earn · **To what, where:** other expenses

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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:pg75089:3:21
# text = With this as a help she was able to meet all other expenses by what she earned during vacations.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	vacations	vacation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sum |  |  |  |  | with a help  this; able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | sum *not said here* | all other expenses |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **earn** | past | sum |  |  |  | during vacations |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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