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title: Yet we, who sometimes caught a glimpse of the inner life, knew that… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet we, who sometimes caught a glimpse of the inner life, knew that she made a constant study of methods of approach and went with prayerful preparation to meet the various calls. Who acts: we, Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 83

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Yet we, who sometimes caught a glimpse of the inner life, knew that she made a constant study of methods of approach and went with prayerful preparation to meet the various calls.

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**Who acts:** we, Russell · **What happens:** catch, know, make, go, meet, glimpse · **To what, where:** glimpse, constant study, various calls, inner life, methods · **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 (we, 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:pg75089:3:83
# text = Yet we, who sometimes caught a glimpse of the inner life, knew that she made a constant study of methods of approach and went with prayerful preparation to meet the various calls.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	prayerful	prayerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | we | a glimpse of the inner life |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | Russell | a constant study of methods of approach |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Product |
| 4 | **go** | past | Russell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with prayerful preparation | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with preparation=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | the various calls |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **glimpse** |  |  | the inner life |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **study** |  |  | methods of approach |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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