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title: About noon I left, promising to visit her on my return from the plac… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: About noon I left, promising to visit her on my return from the place I was going to visit and hold a station class. Who acts: noon, I, my. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 56

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About noon I left, promising to visit her on my return from the place I was going to visit and hold a station class.

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**Who acts:** noon, I, my · **What happens:** leave, promise, visit, go, hold, return · **To what, where:** woman, return, place, station class

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noon, I, my), 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:pg75089:13:56
# text = About noon I left, promising to visit her on my return from the place I was going to visit and hold a station class.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | noon |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | noon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | noon *not said here* | woman |  | my return |  | from the place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | I | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **visit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a station class |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Theme |
| 7 | **return** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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