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title: In the British Legation she went to the hospital to nurse wounded so… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In the British Legation she went to the hospital to nurse wounded soldiers when she needed herself to be carried there on a stretcher. Who acts: sorrow. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 25

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In the British Legation she went to the hospital to nurse wounded soldiers when she needed herself to be carried there on a stretcher.

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**Who acts:** sorrow · **What happens:** go, need, carry · **To what, where:** British Legation, sorrow, stretcher

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow), 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:pg75089:1:25
# text = In the British Legation she went to the hospital to nurse wounded soldiers when she needed herself to be carried there on a stretcher.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Legation	legation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	advcl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stretcher	stretcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sorrow |  |  | the British Legation |  | to the hospital; nurse wounded soldiers *advcl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **need** | past | sorrow | sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive · passive | sorrow *not said here* |  |  | a stretcher; there |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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