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title: Indeed, in her quiet dignity, she made any allusion to, or expressed… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, in her quiet dignity, she made any allusion to, or expressed gratitude for, such obligation difficult. 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 75

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Indeed, in her quiet dignity, she made any allusion to, or expressed gratitude for, such obligation difficult.

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**Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** make, express · **To what, where:** allusion, quiet dignity

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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:pg75089:3:75
# text = Indeed, in her quiet dignity, she made any allusion to, or expressed gratitude for, such obligation difficult.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Russell | any allusion |  | Russell's quiet dignity |  | expressed gratitude for such obligation *obl*; indeed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allusion=Product |
| 2 | **express** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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