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title: She is at present living near Mukden, and it is rumoured that she is… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She is at present living near Mukden, and it is rumoured that she is to be one of the teachers in a girls’ school to be opened in that city. 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
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 33

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She is at present living near Mukden, and it is rumoured that she is to be one of the teachers in a girls’ school to be opened in that city.

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**Who acts:** Jade · **What happens:** be, rumour, open · **To what, where:** present living, money, school, one, city

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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:pg75089:15:33
# text = She is at present living near Mukden, and it is rumoured that she is to be one of the teachers in a girls’ school to be opened in that city.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mukden	Mukden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	rumoured	rumour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jade |  |  | present living |  | near Mukden | tree rules |
| 2 | **rumour** | present · passive |  | money |  | a girls's school |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Jade | one |  |  |  | of the teachers | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | that city |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in city=Location |

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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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