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title: At its close, with no reserve, Miss Russell poured out her love and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At its close, with no reserve, Miss Russell poured out her love and sympathy on the one hand, and on the other sought to regather the church in city and country, and to find work and help for men, women, and children. Who acts: Miss Russell, Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» b
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 25

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At its close, with no reserve, Miss Russell poured out her love and sympathy on the one hand, and on the other sought to regather the church in city and country, and to find work and help for men, women, and children.

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**Who acts:** Miss Russell, Russell · **What happens:** pour out, seek, regather, find, love · **To what, where:** love, close reserve, other, church, city, work

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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 (Miss Russell, 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:pg75089:4:25
# text = At its close, with no reserve, Miss Russell poured out her love and sympathy on the one hand, and on the other sought to regather the church in city and country, and to find work and help for men, women, and children.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	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	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
26	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	regather	regather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
39	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour out** | past | Miss Russell | Russell's love and sympathy |  | fury's close reserve |  | on the one hand | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Miss Russell *not said here* |  |  | the other |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **regather** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Miss Russell *not said here* | the church |  | city and country |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | Miss Russell *not said here* | work and help |  |  |  | for men and women and children | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent work=Theme for man=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **love** |  | Russell |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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