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title: To that she looked and for it she longed, not as rest from service b… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: To that she looked and for it she longed, not as rest from service but as larger opportunity and wider vision. Who acts: Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 71

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To that she looked and for it she longed, not as rest from service but as larger opportunity and wider vision.

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**Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** look, long · **To what, where:** rest, service

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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), 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:pg75089:3:71
# text = To that she looked and for it she longed, not as rest from service but as larger opportunity and wider vision.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Russell |  |  |  |  | to that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=Theme |
| 2 | **long** | past | Russell | rest but larger opportunity and wider vision |  | service |  | for environment | 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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