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title: During the days between June 8th and August 14th, 1900 A.D., many br… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: During the days between June 8th and August 14th, 1900 A.D., many brave deeds were seen and applauded by the foreigners shut within the walls of Peking. Who acts: foreigners. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 1

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During the days between June 8th and August 14th, 1900 A.D., many brave deeds were seen and applauded by the foreigners shut within the walls of Peking.

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**Who acts:** foreigners · **What happens:** see, applaud, shut · **To what, where:** many brave deeds

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigners), 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:pg75089:12:1
# text = During the days between June 8th and August 14th, 1900 A.D., many brave deeds were seen and applauded by the foreigners shut within the walls of Peking.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	8th	8th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	14th	14th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	applauded	applaud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shut	shut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | many brave deeds |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **applaud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shut** | present | the foreigners |  |  |  |  | within the walls of Peking | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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