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title: Every one was left weeping—grain and clothing gone, and some with th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one was left weeping—grain and clothing gone, and some with their homes in ashes. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 9

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Every one was left weeping—grain and clothing gone, and some with their homes in ashes.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** leave, weep · **To what, where:** one, grain

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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 (one), 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:pg75089:15:9
# text = Every one was left weeping—grain and clothing gone, and some with their homes in ashes.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | every one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | every one *not said here* | grain and clothing |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grain=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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