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title: There were almost always among them “Such a charming” or “Such a bri… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: There were almost always among them “Such a charming” or “Such a bright and lovely lady.” 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 78

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There were almost always among them “Such a charming” or “Such a bright and lovely lady.”

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg75089:3:78
# text = There were almost always among them “Such a charming” or “Such a bright and lovely lady.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  | such charming or such bright lady *parataxis*; always *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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