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title: The loss to our work in Peking only those who knew and saw what she… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The loss to our work in Peking only those who knew and saw what she was able to do and to inspire done can fathom. Who acts: loss, 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 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 69

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The loss to our work in Peking only those who knew and saw what she was able to do and to inspire done can fathom.

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**Who acts:** loss, our · **What happens:** know, see, be, do, inspire, fathom · **To what, where:** Peking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (loss, 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:pg75089:4:69
# text = The loss to our work in Peking only those who knew and saw what she was able to do and to inspire done can fathom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	inspire	inspire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fathom	fathom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the loss to our work in Peking |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | past | the loss to our work in Peking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | loss |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | loss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **inspire** | to-infinitive | loss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | participle | loss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fathom** | can |  |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 8 | **work** |  | our |  |  | Peking |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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