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title: Mrs. Mary P. Ament, who has been closely associated with Miss Russel… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Mary P. Ament, who has been closely associated with Miss Russell during the past year, sends the following account of the last loving services rendered to our beloved missionary: Who acts: Mary P. Ament. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Fun
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 1

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Mrs. Mary P. Ament, who has been closely associated with Miss Russell during the past year, sends the following account of the last loving services rendered to our beloved missionary:

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**Who acts:** Mary P. Ament · **What happens:** associate, send, follow, render, account · **To what, where:** Mary P. Ament, following account, last loving services, beloved missionary

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary P. Ament), 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:pg75089:5:1
# text = Mrs. Mary P. Ament, who has been closely associated with Miss Russell during the past year, sends the following account of the last loving services rendered to our beloved missionary:
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Ament	ament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **associate** | present · perfect · passive |  | Mary P. Ament |  |  | year | with Miss Russell; closely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with russell=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **send** | present | Mary P. Ament | the following account of the last loving services |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **render** | participle |  | the last loving services *not said here* | our beloved missionary |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to missionary=Recipient |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | the last loving services |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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