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title: She invited noted ladies to come and address these meetings. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She invited noted ladies to come and address these meetings. Who acts: Miss, noted ladies. 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 38

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She invited noted ladies to come and address these meetings.

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**Who acts:** Miss, noted ladies · **What happens:** invite, note, come, address · **To what, where:** noted ladies, meetings

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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, noted ladies), 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:pg75089:4:38
# text = She invited noted ladies to come and address these meetings.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past | Miss | noted ladies |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | noted ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **address** | infinitive | noted ladies *not said here* | this meetings |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Destination |

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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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