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title: In years of close companionship I learned little of them beyond the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In years of close companionship I learned little of them beyond the ever-recurring suggestion of her rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith and a mother brave and tender, with the highest standards of duty. Who acts: I, rich inheritance, Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 66

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In years of close companionship I learned little of them beyond the ever-recurring suggestion of her rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith and a mother brave and tender, with the highest standards of duty.

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**Who acts:** I, rich inheritance, Russell · **What happens:** learn, recur, suggest, inherit · **To what, where:** little

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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 (I, rich inheritance, 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:pg75089:3:66
# text = In years of close companionship I learned little of them beyond the ever-recurring suggestion of her rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith and a mother brave and tender, with the highest standards of duty.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	companionship	companionship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	recurring	recur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
31	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | I | little of experiences |  |  | year | of close companionship; beyond the recurring suggestion of Russell's rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith and a mother; with the highest standards of duty | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic |
| 2 | **recur** | gerund |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suggest** |  | Russell's rich inheritance from a father of deep religious faith |  |  |  |  |  | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **inherit** |  | Russell |  |  |  |  | from a father of deep religious faith | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent from=obl |

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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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