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title: Ah! no one who was out of China can ever realize the strain of the m… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! no one who was out of China can ever realize the strain of the months preceding that awful cataclysm, the agony of those months in the siege itself, not because of self, but because of missionary friends, and because of the children begotten of the Lord, who were out unsheltered in the fury of t
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 24

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Ah! no one who was out of China can ever realize the strain of the months preceding that awful cataclysm, the agony of those months in the siege itself, not because of self, but because of missionary friends, and because of the children begotten of the Lord, who were out unsheltered in the fury of that wild and awful storm.

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**Who acts:** one, months, children, Lord · **What happens:** be, precede, beget, strain, infuriate · **To what, where:** China, awful cataclysm, siege, fury, one, wild storm

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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 (one, months, children, Lord), 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:pg75089:4:24
# text = Ah! no one who was out of China can ever realize the strain of the months preceding that awful cataclysm, the agony of those months in the siege itself, not because of self, but because of missionary friends, and because of the children begotten of the Lord, who were out unsheltered in the fury of that wild and awful storm.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	realize	realize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cataclysm	cataclysm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
31	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
34	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	missionary	missionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
49	begotten	beget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	out	out	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	unsheltered	unsheltered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
62	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	66	det	_	_
63	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	conj	_	_
66	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can · past | no one but missionary friends |  |  | China | ever | the strain of the months *obj*; realize *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund | the months *not said here* | awful cataclysm |  | the siege  siege |  | because self | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cataclysm=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **beget** | participle | the children |  |  |  |  | of the Lord | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Lord |  |  | the fury of that wild storm |  | unsheltered *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **strain** |  | the months |  |  |  |  |  | nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **infuriate** |  |  | that wild storm |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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