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title: Mr. Lee called his neighbours together and after talking over the ex… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Lee called his neighbours together and after talking over the existing conditions, they bound themselves together to act as watchmen and resist the thieves even to the death. Who acts: Lee, neighbours. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Pre
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 3

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Mr. Lee called his neighbours together and after talking over the existing conditions, they bound themselves together to act as watchmen and resist the thieves even to the death.

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**Who acts:** Lee, neighbours · **What happens:** call, talk, exist, bound, act, resist · **To what, where:** neighbours, existing conditions, thieves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lee, neighbours), 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:pg75089:15:3
# text = Mr. Lee called his neighbours together and after talking over the existing conditions, they bound themselves together to act as watchmen and resist the thieves even to the death.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	resist	resist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Lee  Mr. | Lee's neighbours |  |  |  | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* |  |  | the existing conditions |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bound** | present | neighbours *= neighbour* | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location themselves=Theme |
| 5 | **act** | to-infinitive | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as watchmen | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as watchman=Attribute |
| 6 | **resist** | present | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* | the thieves |  |  |  | to the death | tree rules |

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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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