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title: Cragin of Brooklyn, New York, with whom she formed a friendship, one… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Cragin of Brooklyn, New York, with whom she formed a friendship, one of the most intimate and strongest of her life. Who acts: Cragin. 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 25

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Cragin of Brooklyn, New York, with whom she formed a friendship, one of the most intimate and strongest of her life.

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**Who acts:** Cragin · **What happens:** form · **To what, where:** friendship

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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 (Cragin), 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:pg75089:3:25
# text = Cragin of Brooklyn, New York, with whom she formed a friendship, one of the most intimate and strongest of her life.
1	Cragin	Cragin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Brooklyn	Brooklyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	intimate	intimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | Cragin of Brooklyn  New York | a friendship |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme |

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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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