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title: If ever Miss Russell encourages any movement for our betterment, I a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: If ever Miss Russell encourages any movement for our betterment, I am always sure I can indorse it. Who acts: Miss, I, our. 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 every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 60

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If ever Miss Russell encourages any movement for our betterment, I am always sure I can indorse it.

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**Who acts:** Miss, I, our · **What happens:** encourage, be, indorse, better · **To what, where:** movement

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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, I, our), 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:pg75089:4:60
# text = If ever Miss Russell encourages any movement for our betterment, I am always sure I can indorse it.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	encourages	encourage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	betterment	betterment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	indorse	indorse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Miss | any movement |  |  |  | for our betterment | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | always, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **indorse** | can | I | movement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **better** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom betterment «event intransitive»: poss=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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