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title: One night in the midst of the autumn harvest, while the farmers were… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: One night in the midst of the autumn harvest, while the farmers were celebrating with wine and music the “harvest festival,” the bandits came upon the village. Who acts: farmers, bandits. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dep
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 6

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One night in the midst of the autumn harvest, while the farmers were celebrating with wine and music the “harvest festival,” the bandits came upon the village.

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**Who acts:** farmers, bandits · **What happens:** celebrate, come · **To what, where:** harvest festival, village

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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 (farmers, bandits), 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:pg75089:15:6
# text = One night in the midst of the autumn harvest, while the farmers were celebrating with wine and music the “harvest festival,” the bandits came upon the village.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bandits	bandit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · progressive | the farmers | the harvest festival |  |  |  | with wine and music | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the bandits |  |  | the village | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon village=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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