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title: At this time the eldest sister, Janet, was in Michigan, and the foll… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At this time the eldest sister, Janet, was in Michigan, and the following spring Nellie, with her brother William, joined her there, while the younger sister remained with their guardian, Dr. D. F. Who acts: following spring. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, N
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 10

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At this time the eldest sister, Janet, was in Michigan, and the following spring Nellie, with her brother William, joined her there, while the younger sister remained with their guardian, Dr. D. F.

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**Who acts:** following spring · **What happens:** be, follow, join, remain · **To what, where:** Michigan, Nellie, younger sister

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following spring), 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:pg75089:3:10
# text = At this time the eldest sister, Janet, was in Michigan, and the following spring Nellie, with her brother William, joined her there, while the younger sister remained with their guardian, Dr. D. F.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Janet	Janet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	Nellie	Nellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:desc	_	_
39	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
40	F	F	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Michigan and D.  Dr. | time | D.  Dr. *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | past | the following spring | Nellie |  | there |  | the younger sister *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **remain** | participle |  | the younger sister *not said here* |  |  |  | with children's guardian | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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