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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 95

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She knew so well that “It is more blessed,” and also more comfortable, “to give than to receive,” that in the happiest ways she made herself debtor to those about her.

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**Who acts:** Russell, example · **What happens:** know, be, give, receive, make · **To what, where:** that, Russell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, example), 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:pg75089:3:95
# text = She knew so well that “It is more blessed,” and also more comfortable, “to give than to receive,” that in the happiest ways she made herself debtor to those about her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	debtor	debtor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Russell | that in the happiest ways |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | example |  |  |  |  | blessed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | example *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | past | Russell | Russell |  |  |  | to the happiest ways; debtor *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary debtor=Product |

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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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