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title: Coolidge of Ludlow, Vermont, show how heavy were the burdens of her… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Coolidge of Ludlow, Vermont, show how heavy were the burdens of her youth and explain, in a measure, her peculiar and yearning sympathy for toilers struggling under difficulties for an entrance into a larger intellectual and social life; for widowed mothers, caring for groups of children, and for yo
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 64

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Coolidge of Ludlow, Vermont, show how heavy were the burdens of her youth and explain, in a measure, her peculiar and yearning sympathy for toilers struggling under difficulties for an entrance into a larger intellectual and social life; for widowed mothers, caring for groups of children, and for young students making their way with little aid through courses of study.

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**Who acts:** Coolidge, toilers, widowed mothers, young students · **What happens:** show, be, explain, yearn, struggle, widow · **To what, where:** heavy burdens, measure, larger intellectual life, sympathy, difficulties, way

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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 (Coolidge, toilers, widowed mothers, young students), 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:pg75089:3:64
# text = Coolidge of Ludlow, Vermont, show how heavy were the burdens of her youth and explain, in a measure, her peculiar and yearning sympathy for toilers struggling under difficulties for an entrance into a larger intellectual and social life; for widowed mothers, caring for groups of children, and for young students making their way with little aid through courses of study.
1	Coolidge	Coolidge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ludlow	Ludlow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Vermont	Vermont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	yearning	yearn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	toilers	toiler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
38	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
39	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
42	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	widowed	widow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
58	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	57	acl	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
64	through	through	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Coolidge of Ludlow and Vermont |  |  |  |  | widowed mothers *parataxis*; young students *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the heavy burdens |  |  |  | of Russell's youth | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Coolidge of Ludlow and Vermont *not said here* | a measure and Russell's peculiar |  | a larger intellectual life |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Topic |
| 4 | **yearn** | gerund | Coolidge of Ludlow and Vermont *not said here* | sympathy |  |  |  | for toilers | tree rules |
| 5 | **struggle** | gerund | toilers *not said here* |  |  | difficulties for a entrance |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **widow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **care** | gerund | widowed mothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for groups of children | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for group=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | gerund | young students *not said here* | Coolidge's way |  |  |  | with little aid through courses of study | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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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