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title: She loved, too, the social life, being always most punctilious about… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She loved, too, the social life, being always most punctilious about her calls at the Legations and Customs, and on her Chinese friends of official families. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its depend
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 77

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She loved, too, the social life, being always most punctilious about her calls at the Legations and Customs, and on her Chinese friends of official families.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** love, be, call · **To what, where:** social life, Legations · **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 (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:pg75089:4:77
# text = She loved, too, the social life, being always most punctilious about her calls at the Legations and Customs, and on her Chinese friends of official families.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	punctilious	punctilious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Legations	legation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Miss | the social life |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about Miss's calls at the Legations and Customs; Miss's Chinese friends of official families *conj*; always, punctilious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** |  | Miss |  |  | the Legations and Customs |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent at=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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