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title: With severe limitations of health she yet wrought with delicate touc… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With severe limitations of health she yet wrought with delicate touch and a beautiful fabric was merging from beneath her hands. Who acts: beautiful fabric. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 16

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With severe limitations of health she yet wrought with delicate touch and a beautiful fabric was merging from beneath her hands.

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**Who acts:** beautiful fabric · **What happens:** merge · **To what, where:** hands

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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 (beautiful fabric), 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:pg75089:5:16
# text = With severe limitations of health she yet wrought with delicate touch and a beautiful fabric was merging from beneath her hands.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	limitations	limitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	merging	merge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **merge** | past · progressive | a beautiful fabric |  |  | messenger's hands |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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