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title: She then started off alone and after miles of weary walking she reac… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She then started off alone and after miles of weary walking she reached the place at nightfall. Who acts: Jade. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 20

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She then started off alone and after miles of weary walking she reached the place at nightfall.

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**Who acts:** Jade · **What happens:** start off, reach · **To what, where:** place, nightfall

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jade), 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:pg75089:15:20
# text = She then started off alone and after miles of weary walking she reached the place at nightfall.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | Jade |  |  |  | then | alone *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Jade | the place |  | nightfall | after miles | of weary walking | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at nightfall=Asset |

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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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