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title: While at school at Northfield, Dwight L. Moody came to know her, and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: While at school at Northfield, Dwight L. Moody came to know her, and this reader of men at once saw her rarely winsome gifts. Who acts: Dwight, reader. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 6

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While at school at Northfield, Dwight L. Moody came to know her, and this reader of men at once saw her rarely winsome gifts.

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**Who acts:** Dwight, reader · **What happens:** come, know, see · **To what, where:** Dwight

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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 (Dwight, reader), 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:pg75089:4:6
# text = While at school at Northfield, Dwight L. Moody came to know her, and this reader of men at once saw her rarely winsome gifts.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Northfield	Northfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Dwight	Dwight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Moody	Moody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	obl	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	winsome	winsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Dwight |  |  |  |  | school at Northfield *advcl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | Dwight *not said here* | Dwight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | this reader of men | Dwight |  |  |  | winsome gifts *obj* | 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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