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description: June 13th, about half-past six, we were startled by the news that the front chapel was in flames; a moment or two after came the word for all women to get to the chapel. Who acts: news, front chapel. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism, with its d
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 16

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June 13th, about half-past six, we were startled by the news that the front chapel was in flames; a moment or two after came the word for all women to get to the chapel.

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**Who acts:** news, front chapel · **What happens:** startle, be, come, get · **To what, where:** we, flames, word, past six

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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 (news, front chapel), 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:pg75089:12:16
# text = June 13th, about half-past six, we were startled by the news that the front chapel was in flames; a moment or two after came the word for all women to get to the chapel.
1	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	13th	13th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **startle** | past · passive | the news | we |  |  | moment |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the front chapel |  |  | flames |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the news *not said here* | the word |  |  |  | for all women | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | the news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the chapel *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chapel=Result |

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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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