--- title: The home-making instinct was so strong that she was not content, as… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: The home-making instinct was so strong that she was not content, as others had been, to live in the families of married missionaries, but just as soon as possible secured a house, that she might have a home. Who acts: making instinct, Peking, others. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/) / 11 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 11 The home-making instinct was so strong that she was not content, as others had been, to live in the families of married missionaries, but just as soon as possible secured a house, that she might have a home. **Who acts:** making instinct, Peking, others · **What happens:** make, be, not be, live, secure, have · **To what, where:** families, house, home This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (making instinct, Peking, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:4:11 # text = The home-making instinct was so strong that she was not content, as others had been, to live in the families of married missionaries, but just as soon as possible secured a house, that she might have a home. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 married married ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 missionaries missionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ _ 35 secured secure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | | | | | home *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **is** | past | the making instinct | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | Peking | | | | | content *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | past · perfect | others | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | Peking *not said here* | | | the families of married missionaries | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location | | 6 | **secure** | participle | the making instinct *not said here* | a house | | | | soon *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition house=Theme | | 7 | **have** | might | Peking | a home | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/12/) - ↑ back to [Miss Nellie N. 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