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title: Miss Russell’s great characteristics were, I think, the giving of he… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Russell’s great characteristics were, I think, the giving of herself unsparingly for others, and doing this with sympathy, tenderness, and love. Who acts: great characteristics. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 55

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Miss Russell’s great characteristics were, I think, the giving of herself unsparingly for others, and doing this with sympathy, tenderness, and love.

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**Who acts:** great characteristics · **What happens:** be, give, do · **To what, where:** this

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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 (great characteristics), 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:pg75089:3:55
# text = Miss Russell’s great characteristics were, I think, the giving of herself unsparingly for others, and doing this with sympathy, tenderness, and love.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	unsparingly	unsparingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Miss Russell's great characteristics |  |  |  |  | love *obl*; I *nsubj*; think *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Miss Russell's great characteristics *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Russell; for others; unsparingly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for other=Asset |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | Miss Russell's great characteristics *not said here* | this |  |  |  | with sympathy and tenderness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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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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