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title: She sought the help of men and in some way drew out all their manhoo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She sought the help of men and in some way drew out all their manhood and chivalry by her belief and trust in it. 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 71

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She sought the help of men and in some way drew out all their manhood and chivalry by her belief and trust in it.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** seek, draw out, help, believe · **To what, where:** help, manhood, way, men

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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:pg75089:4:71
# text = She sought the help of men and in some way drew out all their manhood and chivalry by her belief and trust in it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Miss | the help of men |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 2 | **draw out** | past | Miss *not said here* | men's manhood and chivalry |  | some way |  | by Miss's belief and trust in trust | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme in way=Destination |
| 3 | **help** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **believe** |  | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | nom belief «cognition transitive»: 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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