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title: She kept in touch with many of them all her life, corresponding with… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She kept in touch with many of them all her life, corresponding with them after going to China, and hunting them up during her furloughs in this country. Who acts: school. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 54

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She kept in touch with many of them all her life, corresponding with them after going to China, and hunting them up during her furloughs in this country.

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**Who acts:** school · **What happens:** keep, correspond, go, hunt up · **To what, where:** touch, China, courses

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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 (school), 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:pg75089:3:54
# text = She kept in touch with many of them all her life, corresponding with them after going to China, and hunting them up during her furloughs in this country.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	during	during	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	furloughs	furlough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | school |  |  | touch |  | with school's life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location |
| 2 | **correspond** | gerund | school *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with courses *= course* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | school *not said here* |  |  | China |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to china=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hunt up** | gerund | school *not said here* | courses *= course* |  |  | during school's furloughs in this country |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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