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title: It was she who gave her days and nights for many weeks, and even mon… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It was she who gave her days and nights for many weeks, and even months, to helping Dr. Charles Young, the only gentleman then in the Peking station, settle and rearrange the work. Who acts: work. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Uniqu
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 32

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It was she who gave her days and nights for many weeks, and even months, to helping Dr. Charles Young, the only gentleman then in the Peking station, settle and rearrange the work.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** be, help, settle, rearrange · **To what, where:** Russell, Charles, Peking station, 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 (work), 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:pg75089:4:32
# text = It was she who gave her days and nights for many weeks, and even months, to helping Dr. Charles Young, the only gentleman then in the Peking station, settle and rearrange the work.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
20	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	rearrange	rearrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | work |  | Russell |  | day; month | who *nsubj*; give *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | gerund | work *not said here* |  | Charles  Dr. |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charles=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **settle** | infinitive | work *not said here* |  |  | the Peking station | then |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in station=Location |
| 4 | **rearrange** | infinitive | work *not said here* | the work |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Result |

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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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