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title: Here she could receive guests and give, by the attractiveness of her… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Here she could receive guests and give, by the attractiveness of her surroundings, object lessons in home-making. Who acts: Russell. 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 93

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Here she could receive guests and give, by the attractiveness of her surroundings, object lessons in home-making.

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**Who acts:** Russell · **What happens:** receive, give · **To what, where:** guests, attractiveness

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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:pg75089:3:93
# text = Here she could receive guests and give, by the attractiveness of her surroundings, object lessons in home-making.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	attractiveness	attractiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | could | Russell | guests |  | here |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | Russell *not said here* | the attractiveness of Russell's surroundings and object lessons in home making |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attractiveness=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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