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title: From the very beginning of her life in China Miss Russell realized t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 89

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From the very beginning of her life in China Miss Russell realized the importance of the country work.

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**What happens:** realize, begin · **To what, where:** importance, beginning, life

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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:pg75089:3:89
# text = From the very beginning of her life in China Miss Russell realized the importance of the country work.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	realized	realize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **realize** | past |  | the importance of the country work |  |  | from the beginning of Russell's life in China Miss |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer importance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** |  |  | Russell's life in China Miss |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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