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title: She accepted the opportunity as the fruition of the hope and desire… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She accepted the opportunity as the fruition of the hope and desire of childhood, girlhood, and young womanhood, and in twenty-one years of devoted service made “good proof of her ministry.” Who acts: way, hope. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russe
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 60

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She accepted the opportunity as the fruition of the hope and desire of childhood, girlhood, and young womanhood, and in twenty-one years of devoted service made “good proof of her ministry.”

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**Who acts:** way, hope · **What happens:** accept, make, fruit, desire, proof · **To what, where:** opportunity, devoted service, childhood, ministry

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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 (way, hope), 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:pg75089:3:60
# text = She accepted the opportunity as the fruition of the hope and desire of childhood, girlhood, and young womanhood, and in twenty-one years of devoted service made “good proof of her ministry.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fruition	fruition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	girlhood	girlhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	ministry	ministry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | way | the opportunity |  |  |  | as the fruition of the hope and desire of childhood and girlhood; young womanhood *parataxis* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme as fruition=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | devoted service *not said here* |  |  |  | good proof of way's ministry *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fruit** |  | the hope and desire of childhood |  |  |  |  |  | nom fruition «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **desire** |  |  | childhood |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **proof** *in a quote* |  |  | way's ministry |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition 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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