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title: It is suggestive of some of her loveliest qualities that it has been… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It is suggestive of some of her loveliest qualities that it has been difficult to secure anything beyond the bare historical facts with regard to her early years. Who acts: record. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree an
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 62

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It is suggestive of some of her loveliest qualities that it has been difficult to secure anything beyond the bare historical facts with regard to her early years.

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**Who acts:** record · **What happens:** be, secure · **To what, where:** anything

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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 (record), 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:pg75089:3:62
# text = It is suggestive of some of her loveliest qualities that it has been difficult to secure anything beyond the bare historical facts with regard to her early years.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	suggestive	suggestive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | record |  |  |  |  | of some of Russell's loveliest qualities; suggestive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | record *not said here* |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **secure** | to-infinitive |  | anything |  |  | year | beyond the bare historical facts with regard | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anything=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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