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title: At the close of the fourth day they arrived at their home, where the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At the close of the fourth day they arrived at their home, where there was great rejoicing and much praise for brave little Jade. Who acts: robbers, great rejoicing. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 29

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At the close of the fourth day they arrived at their home, where there was great rejoicing and much praise for brave little Jade.

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**Who acts:** robbers, great rejoicing · **What happens:** arrive, be · **To what, where:** close

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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 (robbers, great rejoicing), 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:pg75089:15:29
# text = At the close of the fourth day they arrived at their home, where there was great rejoicing and much praise for brave little Jade.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Jade	Jade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  | the close of the fourth day |  | at robbers's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | great rejoicing and much praise for brave little Jade |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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