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title: The word was sent out and within a few days poems were presented and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The word was sent out and within a few days poems were presented and accepted on Summer, Autumn, and Winter, but not one written on Spring pleased the Emperor. Who acts: pleased Emperor. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its depe
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 3

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The word was sent out and within a few days poems were presented and accepted on Summer, Autumn, and Winter, but not one written on Spring pleased the Emperor.

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**Who acts:** pleased Emperor · **What happens:** send out, present, accept, write · **To what, where:** word, poems, one

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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: who acts (pleased Emperor), 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:pg75089:10:3
# text = The word was sent out and within a few days poems were presented and accepted on Summer, Autumn, and Winter, but not one written on Spring pleased the Emperor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
11	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past · passive |  | the word |  |  |  | Winter *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **present** | past · passive |  | poems |  |  | day | Autumn *obl* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **accept** | participle |  |  |  |  | summer |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **write** | participle · passive | the pleased Emperor | one |  |  | spring |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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