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title: Miss Russell always carried with her the dignity of her womanhood, y… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Russell always carried with her the dignity of her womanhood, yet with never a sense of independence. Who acts: Miss. 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 70

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Miss Russell always carried with her the dignity of her womanhood, yet with never a sense of independence.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** carry, sense · **To what, where:** dignity, independence

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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), 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:pg75089:4:70
# text = Miss Russell always carried with her the dignity of her womanhood, yet with never a sense of independence.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Miss | the dignity of loss's womanhood |  |  |  | with loss; with a sense of independence; always *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dignity=Theme |
| 2 | **sense** |  |  | independence |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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