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title: The men and boys looked upon her as the French did upon Joan of Arc… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The men and boys looked upon her as the French did upon Joan of Arc and gave her their fullest confidence and devotion. Who acts: men, French. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 8

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The men and boys looked upon her as the French did upon Joan of Arc and gave her their fullest confidence and devotion.

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**Who acts:** men, French · **What happens:** look, do, give, confide · **To what, where:** fullest confidence, Ting

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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 (men, French), 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:pg75089:6:8
# text = The men and boys looked upon her as the French did upon Joan of Arc and gave her their fullest confidence and devotion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Joan	Joan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Arc	Arc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fullest	full	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the men and boys |  |  |  |  | upon Ting | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | the French |  |  |  |  | upon Joan of Arc | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | the men and boys *not said here* | men's fullest confidence and devotion | Ting |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient confidence=Theme |
| 4 | **confide** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «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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