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description: His admiration for his conqueror was so evident in his looks and words, that he not only disarmed her anger but won her heart. Who acts: admiration, general, Ting. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 27

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His admiration for his conqueror was so evident in his looks and words, that he not only disarmed her anger but won her heart.

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**Who acts:** admiration, general, Ting · **What happens:** be, not disarm, win, admire, anger · **To what, where:** looks, anger, heart

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (admiration, general, Ting), 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:pg75089:6:27
# text = His admiration for his conqueror was so evident in his looks and words, that he not only disarmed her anger but won her heart.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	disarmed	disarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | general's admiration for general's conqueror |  |  | general's looks and words |  | evident *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **disarm** | participle | general | Ting's anger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anger=Experiencer |
| 3 | **win** | past | general *not said here* | Ting's heart |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 4 | **admire** |  | general |  |  |  |  | for general's conqueror | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 5 | **anger** |  | Ting |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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