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title: Shortly after came the triennial examinations for the advanced degre… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after came the triennial examinations for the advanced degrees. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 28

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Shortly after came the triennial examinations for the advanced degrees.

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**What happens:** come · **To what, where:** triennial examinations

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. 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:pg75089:10:28
# text = Shortly after came the triennial examinations for the advanced degrees.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	triennial	triennial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	examinations	examination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the triennial examinations |  |  |  | for the advanced degrees; shortly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location examination=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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