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title: At the close of the session she went to North Bennington, Vermont, w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At the close of the session she went to North Bennington, Vermont, where she spent two years in the family of Mrs. Coolidge’s sister, Mrs. H. W. Spafford. Who acts: sum. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 17

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At the close of the session she went to North Bennington, Vermont, where she spent two years in the family of Mrs. Coolidge’s sister, Mrs. H. W. Spafford.

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**Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** go, spend · **To what, where:** H. W., North Bennington, close, family

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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 (sum), 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:pg75089:3:17
# text = At the close of the session she went to North Bennington, Vermont, where she spent two years in the family of Mrs. Coolidge’s sister, Mrs. H. W. Spafford.
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	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	session	session	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bennington	Bennington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Vermont	Vermont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Coolidge	Coolidge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
27	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
32	Spafford	Spafford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sum | H. W. | North Bennington | the close of the session |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bennington=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spend** | past | sum |  |  | the family of Mrs.'s sister | year |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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