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title: Her nature never was distorted by her work, but her power to love an… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Her nature never was distorted by her work, but her power to love and enter into others’ lives increased with every passing year. Who acts: work, 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 prag
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 72

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Her nature never was distorted by her work, but her power to love and enter into others’ lives increased with every passing year.

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**Who acts:** work, Miss · **What happens:** not distort, love, enter, increase, work · **To what, where:** nature, lives

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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 (work, 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:pg75089:4:72
# text = Her nature never was distorted by her work, but her power to love and enter into others’ lives increased with every passing year.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	distorted	distort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **distort** | past · passive | Miss's work but Miss's power | Miss's nature |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Material |
| 2 | **love** | to-infinitive | Miss's work but Miss's power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **enter** | infinitive | Miss's work but Miss's power *not said here* |  |  | others's lives |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **increase** | participle |  | others's lives *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **work** |  | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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