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title: She knew better than most of God’s children how to delight in all th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She knew better than most of God’s children how to delight in all the beautiful things her Heavenly Father had placed in the earthly environment, and it was not until disease and sorrow had wasted her reserves of strength that she began to speak often of the life beyond. Who acts: Russell, most, bea
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 70

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She knew better than most of God’s children how to delight in all the beautiful things her Heavenly Father had placed in the earthly environment, and it was not until disease and sorrow had wasted her reserves of strength that she began to speak often of the life beyond.

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**Who acts:** Russell, most, beautiful things · **What happens:** know, delight, place, not waste, begin, speak · **To what, where:** beautiful things, Heavenly, earthly environment, environment, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Russell, most, beautiful things), 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:pg75089:3:70
# text = She knew better than most of God’s children how to delight in all the beautiful things her Heavenly Father had placed in the earthly environment, and it was not until disease and sorrow had wasted her reserves of strength that she began to speak often of the life beyond.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Heavenly	Heavenly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
32	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	often	often	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
51	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Russell |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **delight** | to-infinitive | most of God's children |  |  | all beautiful things |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | all beautiful things *not said here* | Russell's Heavenly |  | the earthly environment |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in environment=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **waste** | past · perfect · passive |  | environment |  |  |  | disease and sorrow *nsubj:pass*; Russell's reserves of strength *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Russell |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | the life |  |  |  | beyond *property* | tree rules |

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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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