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title: The desire of the women, that the monument at her grave should have… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The desire of the women, that the monument at her grave should have a Chinese as well as English inscription, has been carried out. Who acts: monument. 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 124

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The desire of the women, that the monument at her grave should have a Chinese as well as English inscription, has been carried out.

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**Who acts:** monument · **What happens:** have, carry out, desire · **To what, where:** Chinese inscription, desire, women

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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 (monument), 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:pg75089:3:124
# text = The desire of the women, that the monument at her grave should have a Chinese as well as English inscription, has been carried out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | should | the monument at monument's grave | a Chinese inscription |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Patient |
| 2 | **carry out** | present · perfect · passive |  | the desire of the women |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **desire** |  |  | the women |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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