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title: The chapel there had been barricaded and was to be the place of retr… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The chapel there had been barricaded and was to be the place of retreat in case of an attack from Boxers. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 11

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The chapel there had been barricaded and was to be the place of retreat in case of an attack from Boxers.

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**What happens:** barricade, be · **To what, where:** chapel, place

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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: 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:pg75089:12:11
# text = The chapel there had been barricaded and was to be the place of retreat in case of an attack from Boxers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	barricaded	barricade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Boxers	boxer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **barricade** | past · perfect · passive |  | the chapel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the place |  |  |  | of retreat in case of a attack from Boxers | tree rules |

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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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