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title: The year that followed was a drawn-out agony, as she heard the stori… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The year that followed was a drawn-out agony, as she heard the stories of martyrdoms, listened with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees, gathered orphans and widows into schools, and with a faith that never faltered planned to build up the waste places. Who acts: year, sorrow, returned 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 27

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The year that followed was a drawn-out agony, as she heard the stories of martyrdoms, listened with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees, gathered orphans and widows into schools, and with a faith that never faltered planned to build up the waste places.

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**Who acts:** year, sorrow, returned refugees · **What happens:** follow, draw, be, hear, listen, return · **To what, where:** drawn out agony, stories, orphans, faith, waste places · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (year, sorrow, returned refugees), 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:pg75089:1:27
# text = The year that followed was a drawn-out agony, as she heard the stories of martyrdoms, listened with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees, gathered orphans and widows into schools, and with a faith that never faltered planned to build up the waste places.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	martyrdoms	martyrdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	tense	tense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	orphans	orphan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	widows	widow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	faltered	falter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	xcomp	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the year |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the year | a drawn out agony |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | sorrow | the stories of martyrdoms |  |  |  | a faith *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 5 | **listen** | participle |  | the stories of martyrdoms *not said here* |  |  |  | with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **return** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **gather** | past | sorrow *not said here* | orphans and widows |  |  |  | into schools | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent orphan=Patient into school=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **not** **falter** | past |  | a faith |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **build up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the waste places |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer place=Patient |
| 11 | **tell** |  | returned refugees |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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