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title: Miss Russell died at the summer resting-place, Pei Tai Ho; from then… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Russell died at the summer resting-place, Pei Tai Ho; from thence the casket was taken by rail to the city, an eight-hour journey. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 123

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Miss Russell died at the summer resting-place, Pei Tai Ho; from thence the casket was taken by rail to the city, an eight-hour journey.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** die, take · **To what, where:** summer resting place, casket, city

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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 (Miss), 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:pg75089:3:123
# text = Miss Russell died at the summer resting-place, Pei Tai Ho; from thence the casket was taken by rail to the city, an eight-hour journey.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	Tai	Tai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Miss |  |  | the summer resting place |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | the casket |  | the city and a hour journey |  | by rail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from thence=Initial\_Location to city=Destination |

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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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