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title: This work involved long and trying journeys and great physical fatig… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This work involved long and trying journeys and great physical fatigue. Who acts: work. 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 91

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This work involved long and trying journeys and great physical fatigue.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** involve, try · **To what, where:** journeys

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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 (work), 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:pg75089:3:91
# text = This work involved long and trying journeys and great physical fatigue.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	involved	involve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | past | this work |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | this work *not said here* | journeys and great physical fatigue |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |

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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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