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title: At last we reached one of the schoolrooms, and there in the dark, cr… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At last we reached one of the schoolrooms, and there in the dark, crouched among the seats, were two women and four little children. Who acts: last. 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 24

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At last we reached one of the schoolrooms, and there in the dark, crouched among the seats, were two women and four little children.

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**Who acts:** last · **What happens:** reach, crouch, be · **To what, where:** one, dark, seats, two women

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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 (last), 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:pg75089:12:24
# text = At last we reached one of the schoolrooms, and there in the dark, crouched among the seats, were two women and four little children.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	schoolrooms	schoolroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | last | one of the schoolrooms |  | the dark |  | we *nsubj* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **crouch** | participle |  | the dark *not said here* |  | the seats |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among seat=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | two women and four little children |  |  |  | four little children *conj* | 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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