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title: The persecution of each Christian took a mighty hold on her sympathe… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The persecution of each Christian took a mighty hold on her sympathetic heart. Who acts: persecution. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 23

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The persecution of each Christian took a mighty hold on her sympathetic heart.

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**Who acts:** persecution · **What happens:** take, persecute · **To what, where:** mighty hold, sympathetic heart, Christian

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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 (persecution), 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:pg75089:4:23
# text = The persecution of each Christian took a mighty hold on her sympathetic heart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the persecution of each Christian | a mighty hold |  | persecution's sympathetic heart |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on heart=Destination |
| 2 | **persecute** |  |  | each Christian |  |  |  |  | nom persecution «act 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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