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title: Dressed most carefully in Chinese garments, for many years she spent… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 14

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Dressed most carefully in Chinese garments, for many years she spent months at a time away from Peking, living at some branch station, making trips to nearby villages, holding classes for women or visiting them in their homes.

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**Who acts:** simplicity · **What happens:** dress, spend, live, make, hold, visit · **To what, where:** Chinese garments, branch station, trips, classes, homes

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simplicity), 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:pg75089:4:14
# text = Dressed most carefully in Chinese garments, for many years she spent months at a time away from Peking, living at some branch station, making trips to nearby villages, holding classes for women or visiting them in their homes.
1	Dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
28	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
34	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  | Chinese garments |  | carefully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | past | simplicity |  |  |  | month; time; year | away *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | simplicity *not said here* |  |  | some branch station |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at station=Location |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | simplicity *not said here* | trips |  |  |  | to nearby villages | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund | simplicity *not said here* | classes |  |  |  | for women | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Theme |
| 6 | **visit** | gerund | simplicity *not said here* | classes *= class* |  | classes's homes |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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