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title: La Mesa, California, January, 1915. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: La Mesa, California, January, 1915. 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 9

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La Mesa, California, January, 1915.

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**To what, where:** Mesa

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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:pg75089:1:9
# text = La Mesa, California, January, 1915.
1	La	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mesa	Mesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	1915	1915	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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