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title: One never could think of her as being a bachelor maid, she was so wo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: One never could think of her as being a bachelor maid, she was so womanly. Who acts: One, Peking. 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 9

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One never could think of her as being a bachelor maid, she was so womanly.

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**Who acts:** One, Peking · **What happens:** not think, be

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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 (One, Peking), 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:pg75089:4:9
# text = One never could think of her as being a bachelor maid, she was so womanly.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	womanly	womanly	ADV	RB	_	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | One |  |  |  |  | of Peking | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a bachelor maid | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Peking |  |  |  |  | womanly *property* | tree rules |

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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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