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title: After five years of earnest, successful work in Chicago, Miss Russel… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After five years of earnest, successful work in Chicago, Miss Russell, well fitted by such training, felt that the time had come for her to go to the distant field, which she always had kept in view. Who acts: time, Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Ne
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 58

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After five years of earnest, successful work in Chicago, Miss Russell, well fitted by such training, felt that the time had come for her to go to the distant field, which she always had kept in view.

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**Who acts:** time, Russell · **What happens:** fit, feel, come, go, keep · **To what, where:** successful work, distant field, view

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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 (time, Russell), 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:pg75089:3:58
# text = After five years of earnest, successful work in Chicago, Miss Russell, well fitted by such training, felt that the time had come for her to go to the distant field, which she always had kept in view.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | participle |  | successful work in Chicago  Miss Russell *not said here* |  |  |  | by such training; well *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by training=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | the time |  |  |  |  | for Russell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* |  |  | the distant field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **keep** | past · perfect | Russell | the distant field |  | view |  | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in view=Location |

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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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