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title: In connection with this there were organized evening classes. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In connection with this there were organized evening classes. Who acts: organized evening classes. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 45

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In connection with this there were organized evening classes.

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**Who acts:** organized evening classes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** connection

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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 (organized evening classes), 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:pg75089:3:45
# text = In connection with this there were organized evening classes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	organized	organized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | organized evening classes |  |  | connection with this; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in connection=Location |

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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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