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title: It was her aim to come into intimate touch with many and to order he… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It was her aim to come into intimate touch with many and to order her days so that she might be ready to respond to every call which came. Who acts: service, Russell, call. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 85

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It was her aim to come into intimate touch with many and to order her days so that she might be ready to respond to every call which came.

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**Who acts:** service, Russell, call · **What happens:** be, come, order, respond · **To what, where:** aim, intimate touch

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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 (service, Russell, call), 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:pg75089:3:85
# text = It was her aim to come into intimate touch with many and to order her days so that she might be ready to respond to every call which came.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | service | Russell's aim |  |  |  | Russell *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | intimate touch |  | with many | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into touch=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **order** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | might | Russell |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **respond** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to every call | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to call=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | every call |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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