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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 48

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Miss Russell wrote to Mr. Moody with regard to them and asked if an arrangement could be made by which the most promising could be admitted to Mt.

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**Who acts:** Miss Russell · **What happens:** write, ask, make, promise, admit · **To what, where:** Moody, arrangement, Mt

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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 Russell), 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:pg75089:3:48
# text = Miss Russell wrote to Mr. Moody with regard to them and asked if an arrangement could be made by which the most promising could be admitted to Mt.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Moody	Moody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Mt	Mt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Miss Russell |  | Moody  Mr. |  |  | with regard to carpentry | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to moody=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Miss Russell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · passive |  | a arrangement |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* | could · passive |  |  | Mt |  |  | which *obl* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by which=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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