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title: After the fury was spent and we could get news of those distant from… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After the fury was spent and we could get news of those distant from us, we found that nine of the ten who belonged to us in that place had been cut down. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 58

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After the fury was spent and we could get news of those distant from us, we found that nine of the ten who belonged to us in that place had been cut down.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** spend, get, find, belong, cut down · **To what, where:** fury, news, us, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we), 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:pg75089:13:58
# text = After the fury was spent and we could get news of those distant from us, we found that nine of the ten who belonged to us in that place had been cut down.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	_
13	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the fury |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | could | we | news of those |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **belong** | past |  |  | us |  |  | that nine of the ten; who *nsubj* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cut down** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | that place |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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