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title: With Some of Her Stories of Life in China, to which are added Memori… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With Some of Her Stories of Life in China, to which are added Memorial Sketches of the Author from Associates and Friends 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 4

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With Some of Her Stories of Life in China, to which are added Memorial Sketches of the Author from Associates and Friends

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**What happens:** add · **To what, where:** Memorial Sketches, Associates

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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: 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:pg75089:1:4
# text = With Some of Her Stories of Life in China, to which are added Memorial Sketches of the Author from Associates and Friends
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
15	Memorial	memorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Associates	associate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Memorial Sketches of the Author |  | Associates and Friends |  | to RUSSELL's Stories of Life in China | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: sketch=Patient to which=Co-Patient |

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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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