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title: Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies I cannot favour, but M… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies I cannot favour, but Miss Russell is so wise, so careful, so good a friend of the Chinese, I can always trust her.” Who acts: I, Some, Chinese ladies. 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 61

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Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies I cannot favour, but Miss Russell is so wise, so careful, so good a friend of the Chinese, I can always trust her.”

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**Who acts:** I, Some, Chinese ladies · **What happens:** not favour, be, trust, suggest · **To what, where:** Chinese ladies, Miss

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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 (I, Some, Chinese ladies), 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:pg75089:4:61
# text = Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies I cannot favour, but Miss Russell is so wise, so careful, so good a friend of the Chinese, I can always trust her.”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	suggestions	suggestion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	favour	favour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **favour** | can | I | the Chinese ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies |  |  |  |  | Miss *nsubj*; a good friend of the Chinese *parataxis*; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Some of the suggestions of the Chinese ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **trust** | can | I | Miss |  |  |  | always *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **suggest** |  | the Chinese ladies |  |  |  |  |  | nom suggestion «cognition 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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