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title: She came from interviews with individuals or groups of women with th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She came from interviews with individuals or groups of women with the most delightful stories of those she had met. 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 77

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She came from interviews with individuals or groups of women with the most delightful stories of those she had met.

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**Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** come, meet · **To what, where:** interviews

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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:pg75089:3:77
# text = She came from interviews with individuals or groups of women with the most delightful stories of those she had met.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	interviews	interview	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Russell |  |  | interviews with individuals with the delightful stories of those or groups of women |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from interview=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **meet** | past · perfect | Russell |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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