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title: The situation was all abnormal, and Satan slew many with the poisone… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The situation was all abnormal, and Satan slew many with the poisoned darts of revenge and greed, whom he could not slay otherwise. Who acts: situation, Satan. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency tree and 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 26

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The situation was all abnormal, and Satan slew many with the poisoned darts of revenge and greed, whom he could not slay otherwise.

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**Who acts:** situation, Satan · **What happens:** be, slay, poison, not slay · **To what, where:** many, greed

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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 (situation, Satan), 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:pg75089:4:26
# text = The situation was all abnormal, and Satan slew many with the poisoned darts of revenge and greed, whom he could not slay otherwise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	abnormal	abnormal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the situation |  |  |  |  | abnormal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Satan | many |  |  |  | with the poisoned darts of revenge and greed | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent many=Patient with dart=Instrument |
| 3 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **slay** | could | Satan | greed |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

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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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