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title: Following the sudden but prolonged sickness and the death of Dr. Ame… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the sudden but prolonged sickness and the death of Dr. Ament, no one knew as did Miss Russell the work of the pastors, evangelists, teachers, and chapel-keepers, in the city and in the large country field, which reached into a few walled cities and many market towns and villages. Who acts:
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 31

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Following the sudden but prolonged sickness and the death of Dr. Ament, no one knew as did Miss Russell the work of the pastors, evangelists, teachers, and chapel-keepers, in the city and in the large country field, which reached into a few walled cities and many market towns and villages.

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**Who acts:** Following, one, large country field, Dr. Ament, pastors · **What happens:** follow, prolong, know, do, reach, wall · **To what, where:** sudden, sickness, Miss Russell, few walled cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Following, one, large country field, Dr. Ament), 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:pg75089:4:31
# text = Following the sudden but prolonged sickness and the death of Dr. Ament, no one knew as did Miss Russell the work of the pastors, evangelists, teachers, and chapel-keepers, in the city and in the large country field, which reached into a few walled cities and many market towns and villages.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Ament	ament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pastors	pastor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	evangelists	evangelist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | the sudden |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sudden=Theme |
| 2 | **prolong** | past | Following | sickness and the death of Dr. Ament |  |  |  | chapel keepers in the city and the large country field *obl* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | past |  | Miss Russell |  |  |  | the work of the pastors and evangelists and teachers *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** | past | the large country field |  |  | a few walled cities and many market towns and villages |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into city=Path |
| 6 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **die** |  | Dr. Ament |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **work** |  | the pastors and evangelists and teachers |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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