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title: It is to this friendship that we are indebted for the few details of… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It is to this friendship that we are indebted for the few details of the years between her entrance into the seminary and going to China. Who acts: friendship. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 26

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It is to this friendship that we are indebted for the few details of the years between her entrance into the seminary and going to China.

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**Who acts:** friendship · **What happens:** be, indebt, go, detail · **To what, where:** we, seminary, China, years

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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 (friendship), 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:pg75089:3:26
# text = It is to this friendship that we are indebted for the few details of the years between her entrance into the seminary and going to China.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	indebted	indebt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	seminary	seminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | friendship |  |  |  |  | to this friendship | tree rules |
| 2 | **indebt** | present · passive |  | we |  | the seminary |  | for the few details of the years between sum's entrance | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | China |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to china=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **detail** |  |  | the years between sum's entrance |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition 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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