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title: Those who have read the events of the past summer carefully will rem… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who have read the events of the past summer carefully will remember that the missionaries and many hundreds of converts were in semi-siege at the M. E. Mission for twelve days before going to the British Legation. Who acts: Those, missionaries. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» b
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 9

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Those who have read the events of the past summer carefully will remember that the missionaries and many hundreds of converts were in semi-siege at the M. E. Mission for twelve days before going to the British Legation.

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**Who acts:** Those, missionaries · **What happens:** read, remember, be, go · **To what, where:** events, semi-siege, British Legation · **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: who acts (Those, missionaries), 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:pg75089:12:9
# text = Those who have read the events of the past summer carefully will remember that the missionaries and many hundreds of converts were in semi-siege at the M. E. Mission for twelve days before going to the British Legation.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	converts	convert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	semi-siege	semi-siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Mission	Mission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Legation	Legation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · perfect |  | the events of the past summer |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; carefully *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** | future | Those |  |  |  | day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the missionaries and many hundreds of converts |  |  | semi-siege |  | at the M. E. Mission | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | Those *not said here* |  |  | the British Legation |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to legation=Initial\_Location |

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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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