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title: Much was said to the poor mothers along this line because Chinese wo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Much was said to the poor mothers along this line because Chinese women, as a rule, have little thought and less method in training their children. 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 15

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Much was said to the poor mothers along this line because Chinese women, as a rule, have little thought and less method in training their children.

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**What happens:** say, think, train · **To what, where:** Much, poor mothers, Chinese women, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg75089:12:15
# text = Much was said to the poor mothers along this line because Chinese women, as a rule, have little thought and less method in training their children.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
12	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	training	train	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Much | the poor mothers along this line |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to mother=Recipient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | Chinese women and a rule |  |  |  | less method *conj*; little *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **train** | gerund |  | women's children |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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