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title: Nellie Naomi Russell was born in Ontonagon, Michigan, March 31, 1862. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Nellie Naomi Russell was born in Ontonagon, Michigan, March 31, 1862. 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 4

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Nellie Naomi Russell was born in Ontonagon, Michigan, March 31, 1862.

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**What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Nellie, Ontonagon

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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: 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:pg75089:3:4
# text = Nellie Naomi Russell was born in Ontonagon, Michigan, March 31, 1862.
1	Nellie	Nellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ontonagon	Ontonagon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	1862	1862	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Nellie |  | Ontonagon  31  March  1862 and Michigan |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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