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title: When she saw that she could not take as long country trips and endur… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: When she saw that she could not take as long country trips and endure the same fatigue as formerly, she set all her energies to work in bringing the Bible school for training women workers into being, and in reaching city women. Who acts: hair. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nell
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 29

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When she saw that she could not take as long country trips and endure the same fatigue as formerly, she set all her energies to work in bringing the Bible school for training women workers into being, and in reaching city women.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** see, not take, endure, set, work, bring · **To what, where:** country trips, same fatigue, energies, Bible school, city women · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hair), 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:pg75089:4:29
# text = When she saw that she could not take as long country trips and endure the same fatigue as formerly, she set all her energies to work in bringing the Bible school for training women workers into being, and in reaching city women.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	endure	endure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	energies	energy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	compound	_	_
36	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
37	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
43	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **take** | could | hair | country trips |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme |
| 3 | **endure** | present | hair *not said here* | the same fatigue |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fatigue=Circumstance |
| 4 | **set** | past | hair | hair's energies |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient energy=Result |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bring** | gerund | hair *not said here* | the Bible school |  |  |  | for women workers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent school=Theme |
| 7 | **reach** | gerund | hair *not said here* | city women |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |

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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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