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title: Miss Russell, seeing the opportunity, began both at this and the Fir… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Russell, seeing the opportunity, began both at this and the First Church to have simple lectures for women on the great Fair days, three times a month. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its depende
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 36

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Miss Russell, seeing the opportunity, began both at this and the First Church to have simple lectures for women on the great Fair days, three times a month.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** see, begin, have · **To what, where:** opportunity, this, simple lectures

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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 (Miss), 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:pg75089:4:36
# text = Miss Russell, seeing the opportunity, began both at this and the First Church to have simple lectures for women on the great Fair days, three times a month.
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lectures	lecture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Miss *not said here* | the opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Miss |  |  | this |  | the First Church *conj*; both *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | Miss *not said here* | simple lectures |  |  |  | for women on the great Fair days | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=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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