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title: They were accompanied all the way upward by the sympathy, advice, an… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: They were accompanied all the way upward by the sympathy, advice, and assistance of Miss Russell. Who acts: sympathy. 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 53

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They were accompanied all the way upward by the sympathy, advice, and assistance of Miss Russell.

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**Who acts:** sympathy · **What happens:** accompany, assist · **To what, where:** courses, Miss

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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 (sympathy), 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:pg75089:3:53
# text = They were accompanied all the way upward by the sympathy, advice, and assistance of Miss Russell.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past · passive | the sympathy and advice | courses *= course* |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked*; assistance of Miss *parataxis*; upward *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **assist** |  |  | Miss |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act 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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