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title: The twenty-second day of August the cable flashed across the Pacific… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The twenty-second day of August the cable flashed across the Pacific the news that Miss Nellie N. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 3

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The twenty-second day of August the cable flashed across the Pacific the news that Miss Nellie N.

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**What happens:** flash · **To what, where:** second day, Pacific

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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: 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:pg75089:4:3
# text = The twenty-second day of August the cable flashed across the Pacific the news that Miss Nellie N.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Nellie	Nellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | participle · passive |  | the second day of August |  | the Pacific |  | the cable *nsubj*; the news  Nellie N  that *obj* | tree rules |

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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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