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title: I remember her telling me that from her early childhood she loved no… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: I remember her telling me that from her early childhood she loved no stories so well as those of foreign missionaries, and that she hoped, even when a little girl, that some day she might become one. Who acts: I, sum, day. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nell
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 29

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I remember her telling me that from her early childhood she loved no stories so well as those of foreign missionaries, and that she hoped, even when a little girl, that some day she might become one.

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**Who acts:** I, sum, day · **What happens:** remember, tell, love, hope, become · **To what, where:** sum, that, me, early childhood, stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, sum, day), 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:pg75089:3:29
# text = I remember her telling me that from her early childhood she loved no stories so well as those of foreign missionaries, and that she hoped, even when a little girl, that some day she might become one.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | I | sum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* | that | me | sum's early childhood |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Topic |
| 3 | **love** | past | sum | no stories |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hope** | past | sum |  |  |  |  | a little girl *advcl* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **become** | might | some day |  |  |  |  | sum *nsubj*; one *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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