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title: A Bible school for women rose in her future, and after it became a f… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 31

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A Bible school for women rose in her future, and after it became a fact, and others were doing most of the routine work, she passed on to work into a reality dreams of a school for women of the higher classes, with lecture courses, mothers’ clubs, and training for social service, a work which for many years to come cannot reach the proportions of her vision.

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**Who acts:** Bible school, present, others, woman, reality, mothers · **What happens:** rise, become, do, pass on, work, dream · **To what, where:** future, fact, most, clubs, work

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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 (Bible school, present, others, woman), 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:pg75089:1:31
# text = A Bible school for women rose in her future, and after it became a fact, and others were doing most of the routine work, she passed on to work into a reality dreams of a school for women of the higher classes, with lecture courses, mothers’ clubs, and training for social service, a work which for many years to come cannot reach the proportions of her vision.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	routine	routine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	dreams	dream	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	amod	_	_
45	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	lecture	lecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	’	'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
53	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
63	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	71	obj	_	_
64	for	for	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	obl	_	_
67	to	to	PART	TO	_	68	mark	_	_
68	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	acl	_	_
69	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	71	advmod	_	_
71	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	acl:relcl	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	proportions	proportion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	obj	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	76	nmod:poss	_	_
76	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | a Bible school for women |  |  | woman's future |  | training for social service and a work *parataxis* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in future=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | present | a fact |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | past · progressive | others | most of the routine work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pass on** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **dream** | present | a reality |  |  |  |  | of a school for women of the higher classes and lecture courses | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **'** | present | mothers | clubs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **reach** | can |  | a work |  |  | year | the proportions of woman's vision *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary proportion=Theme |

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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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