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title: Coming again some days later he was taken to the audience-room. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Coming again some days later he was taken to the audience-room. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 9

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Coming again some days later he was taken to the audience-room.

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**What happens:** come, take · **To what, where:** workman, audience room

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. 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:pg75089:11:9
# text = Coming again some days later he was taken to the audience-room.
1	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj:pass	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | workman |  | the audience room |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to room=Destination |

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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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