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title: Those who had not known Miss Russell intimately can little guess the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who had not known Miss Russell intimately can little guess the grief that came to every heart which knew her in China, whether belonging to the missionary body, American or British, the Legation circles of these countries, or the countless hundreds of Chinese who had felt the beautiful uplift 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 5

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Those who had not known Miss Russell intimately can little guess the grief that came to every heart which knew her in China, whether belonging to the missionary body, American or British, the Legation circles of these countries, or the countless hundreds of Chinese who had felt the beautiful uplift of her personality.

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**Who acts:** Those, grief, heart, countless hundreds, personality · **What happens:** not know, guess, come, know, belong, feel · **To what, where:** Miss Russell, grief, heart, Russell, China, Legation circles

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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 (Those, grief, heart, countless hundreds), 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:pg75089:4:5
# text = Those who had not known Miss Russell intimately can little guess the grief that came to every heart which knew her in China, whether belonging to the missionary body, American or British, the Legation circles of these countries, or the countless hundreds of Chinese who had felt the beautiful uplift of her personality.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	intimately	intimately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Legation	Legation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	_	46	nmod	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	uplift	uplift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	xcomp	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | Miss Russell |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass*; intimately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **guess** | can | Those | the grief |  |  |  | little *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the grief |  |  | every heart |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **know** | past | every heart | Russell |  | China |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **belong** | gerund | Those *not said here* | the Legation circles of this countries |  |  |  | to the missionary body; the countless hundreds of Chinese *obl* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **feel** | past · perfect | the countless hundreds of Chinese | the beautiful uplift of Russell's personality |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **uplift** |  | Russell's personality |  |  |  |  |  | nom uplift «event intransitive»: of=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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