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title: She heartily enjoyed intercourse with the cultured ladies and gentle… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She heartily enjoyed intercourse with the cultured ladies and gentlemen of these circles and was often able to bring them into touch with her Manchu and Chinese friends with real advantage to both sides. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Ne
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 79

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She heartily enjoyed intercourse with the cultured ladies and gentlemen of these circles and was often able to bring them into touch with her Manchu and Chinese friends with real advantage to both sides.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** enjoy, culture, be, bring · **To what, where:** intercourse, circles, touch

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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:pg75089:4:79
# text = She heartily enjoyed intercourse with the cultured ladies and gentlemen of these circles and was often able to bring them into touch with her Manchu and Chinese friends with real advantage to both sides.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cultured	culture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Manchu	Manchu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past | Miss | intercourse |  |  |  | with the cultured ladies and gentlemen of this circles; heartily *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer intercourse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **culture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Miss *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able, often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Miss *not said here* | circles *= circle* |  | touch with Miss's Manchu and Chinese friends with real advantage |  | to both sides | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into touch=Destination |

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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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