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title: The way was opened for her to enter the work in China under the Woma… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The way was opened for her to enter the work in China under the Woman’s Board of the Interior in connection with the American Board of Foreign Missions. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 59

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The way was opened for her to enter the work in China under the Woman’s Board of the Interior in connection with the American Board of Foreign Missions.

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**What happens:** open, enter · **To what, where:** way, work, China

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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: 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:pg75089:3:59
# text = The way was opened for her to enter the work in China under the Woman’s Board of the Interior in connection with the American Board of Foreign Missions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Interior	Interior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Board	Board	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Foreign	Foreign	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive |  | the way |  |  |  | for Russell | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | to-infinitive |  | the work |  | China |  | under the Woman's Board of the Interior; in connection with the American Board of Foreign Missions | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=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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