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title: Mr. Lee then went to the neighbouring villages and helped them to fo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Lee then went to the neighbouring villages and helped them to form little companies of volunteers for the same purpose. Who acts: Lee, villages. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 4

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Mr. Lee then went to the neighbouring villages and helped them to form little companies of volunteers for the same purpose.

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**Who acts:** Lee, villages · **What happens:** go, help, form · **To what, where:** neighbouring villages, villages, little companies

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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, villages), 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:pg75089:15:4
# text = Mr. Lee then went to the neighbouring villages and helped them to form little companies of volunteers for the same purpose.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Lee  Mr. |  |  | the neighbouring villages | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **help** | past | Lee  Mr. *not said here* | villages *= village* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive | villages *= village* *not said here* | little companies of volunteers |  |  |  | for the same purpose | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent company=Result for purpose=Beneficiary |

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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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