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title: More than once the midnight hour found her still in conference with… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: More than once the midnight hour found her still in conference with Chinese workers, strengthening those who were strong, exhorting the weak, and in some cases reporting and removing those who were proving inefficient, and even unworthy of their trust. Who acts: midnight hour, cases. A sentence of «
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 33

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More than once the midnight hour found her still in conference with Chinese workers, strengthening those who were strong, exhorting the weak, and in some cases reporting and removing those who were proving inefficient, and even unworthy of their trust.

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**Who acts:** midnight hour, cases · **What happens:** find, strengthen, be, exhort, report, remove · **To what, where:** Russell, conference, those, weak, cases

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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 (midnight hour, cases), 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:pg75089:4:33
# text = More than once the midnight hour found her still in conference with Chinese workers, strengthening those who were strong, exhorting the weak, and in some cases reporting and removing those who were proving inefficient, and even unworthy of their trust.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	strengthening	strengthen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	exhorting	exhort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
30	reporting	report	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	proving	prove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	inefficient	inefficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the midnight hour | Russell |  | conference with Chinese workers |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **strengthen** | gerund | the midnight hour *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **exhort** | gerund |  | the weak |  | some cases |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Recipient |
| 5 | **report** | gerund | some cases *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **remove** | gerund | some cases *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 7 | **prove** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; inefficient *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **trust** |  | cases *= case* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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