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title: At the close of the examinations a great feast was given; among thos… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At the close of the examinations a great feast was given; among those present was a powerful official by name of Hai Jui. Who acts: present. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 58

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At the close of the examinations a great feast was given; among those present was a powerful official by name of Hai Jui.

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**Who acts:** present · **What happens:** give, be, name · **To what, where:** great feast, close, powerful official, Hai

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present), 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:pg75089:20:58
# text = At the close of the examinations a great feast was given; among those present was a powerful official by name of Hai Jui.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	examinations	examination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Hai	Hai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Jui	Jui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | a great feast |  | the close of the examinations |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at close=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that present | a powerful official |  |  |  | by name of Hai | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Hai |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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