--- title: She truly “Bore the yoke in her youth” and learned to carry it so bu… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: She truly “Bore the yoke in her youth” and learned to carry it so buoyantly, and walk under it with such elasticity of spirit, that one’s memory of her is always that of largeness and joy rather than of mere patience or resignation. Who acts: Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [Nellie N. Russell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/) / 69 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 69 She truly “Bore the yoke in her youth” and learned to carry it so buoyantly, and walk under it with such elasticity of spirit, that one’s memory of her is always that of largeness and joy rather than of mere patience or resignation. **Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** bear, learn, carry, walk, be · **To what, where:** yoke, youth, memory 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 (Russell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:3:69 # text = She truly “Bore the yoke in her youth” and learned to carry it so buoyantly, and walk under it with such elasticity of spirit, that one’s memory of her is always that of largeness and joy rather than of mere patience or resignation. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 truly truly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 yoke yoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 buoyantly buoyantly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 elasticity elasticity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 37 advmod _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 largeness largeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 46 cc _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 47 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 resignation resignation NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** *in a quote* | past | Russell | the yoke | | Russell's youth | | truly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoke=Patient | | 2 | **learn** | past | Russell *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | yoke | | | | buoyantly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | infinitive | Russell *not said here* | that one's memory | | yoke | | with such elasticity of spirit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | of that; of largeness and joy rather mere patience or resignation; Russell *nmod:poss*; always *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/70/) - ↑ back to [Nellie N. 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