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title: She, more than any other missionary whom I have known, held herself… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She, more than any other missionary whom I have known, held herself conscientiously free from the restrictions of fixed hours and a teaching schedule, that she might be at liberty for large social and individual service. Who acts: Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Na
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 84

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She, more than any other missionary whom I have known, held herself conscientiously free from the restrictions of fixed hours and a teaching schedule, that she might be at liberty for large social and individual service.

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**Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** know, hold, fix, be, restrict · **To what, where:** other missionary, Russell, liberty, fixed hours

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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:pg75089:3:84
# text = She, more than any other missionary whom I have known, held herself conscientiously free from the restrictions of fixed hours and a teaching schedule, that she might be at liberty for large social and individual service.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	conscientiously	conscientiously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	schedule	schedule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
36	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | any other missionary |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | past |  | Russell |  |  |  | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 3 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | might | Russell |  |  | liberty |  | for large social service | tree rules |
| 6 | **restrict** |  |  | fixed hours and a teaching schedule |  |  |  |  | nom restriction «cognition 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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