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title: Her associates helped receive and entertain, sometimes for hours aft… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Her associates helped receive and entertain, sometimes for hours afterward, the many guests who came, showing school, kindergarten, museums, etc. Who acts: associates, many guests. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 40

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Her associates helped receive and entertain, sometimes for hours afterward, the many guests who came, showing school, kindergarten, museums, etc.

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**Who acts:** associates, many guests · **What happens:** help, receive, entertain, come, show · **To what, where:** many guests, school

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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 (associates, many guests), 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:pg75089:4:40
# text = Her associates helped receive and entertain, sometimes for hours afterward, the many guests who came, showing school, kindergarten, museums, etc.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	associates	associate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	entertain	entertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	kindergarten	kindergarten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | Miss's associates | the many guests |  |  | hour | etc. *conj*; afterward *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | infinitive | the many guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **entertain** | infinitive | the many guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | past | the many guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | gerund | the many guests *not said here* | school and kindergarten and museums |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient |

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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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