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title: With rare tact Miss Russell showed her appreciation of all things in… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With rare tact Miss Russell showed her appreciation of all things in Chinese life that were really beautiful. Who acts: Miss, Chinese life. 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 ev
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 41

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With rare tact Miss Russell showed her appreciation of all things in Chinese life that were really beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Miss, Chinese life · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** appreciation

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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, Chinese life), 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:pg75089:4:41
# text = With rare tact Miss Russell showed her appreciation of all things in Chinese life that were really beautiful.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tact	tact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	appreciation	appreciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Miss | Miss's appreciation of all things in Chinese life |  |  |  | with rare tact | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent appreciation=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Chinese life |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |

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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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