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title: It was the underlings, servants, and Boxers, supported by the presen… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the underlings, servants, and Boxers, supported by the present owner, who was also a Boxer leader, who destroyed the Congregational Mission in 1900. Who acts: palace, present owner, Boxer leader. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, pa
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 27

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It was the underlings, servants, and Boxers, supported by the present owner, who was also a Boxer leader, who destroyed the Congregational Mission in 1900.

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**Who acts:** palace, present owner, Boxer leader · **What happens:** be, support, destroy · **To what, where:** underlings, Boxers, Boxer leader, Congregational Mission, 1900

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, present owner, Boxer leader), 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:pg75089:21:27
# text = It was the underlings, servants, and Boxers, supported by the present owner, who was also a Boxer leader, who destroyed the Congregational Mission in 1900.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	underlings	underling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Boxers	Boxer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Boxer	boxer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Congregational	Congregational	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Mission	Mission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | palace | the underlings and servants |  |  |  | Boxers *nmod*; servants *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **support** | participle |  | Boxers *not said here* |  |  |  | the present owner *obl:agent* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the present owner | a Boxer leader |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** | past | a Boxer leader | the Congregational Mission |  | 1900 |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=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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