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title: Rev. Mr. Stelle, speaking in Chinese, emphasized our opportunity to… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Rev. Mr. Stelle, speaking in Chinese, emphasized our opportunity to show our respect for her by seeking the things which she valued. Who acts: Stelle, things, our. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, with its dependency tree and th
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 10

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Rev. Mr. Stelle, speaking in Chinese, emphasized our opportunity to show our respect for her by seeking the things which she valued.

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**Who acts:** Stelle, things, our · **What happens:** speak, emphasize, show, seek, value, respect · **To what, where:** Chinese, opportunity, respect, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Stelle, things, our), 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:pg75089:5:10
# text = Rev. Mr. Stelle, speaking in Chinese, emphasized our opportunity to show our respect for her by seeking the things which she valued.
1	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Stelle	Stelle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	emphasized	emphasize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Stelle  Rev.  Mr. *not said here* |  |  | Chinese |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **emphasize** | past | Stelle  Rev.  Mr. | our opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Stelle  Rev.  Mr. *not said here* | our respect |  |  |  | for Stelle | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund | Stelle  Rev.  Mr. *not said here* | the things |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 5 | **value** | past | the things |  |  |  |  | Stelle *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **respect** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: 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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