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title: This past winter (1911) Miss Russell and Mrs. Ament opened rooms in… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This past winter (1911) Miss Russell and Mrs. Ament opened rooms in a court directly opening from a gate on the main street, where they received their lady guests, held classes and small lectures, etc. Nowhere in Peking was there a daintier, prettier reception-room. Who acts: past winter, rooms, Pek
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 48

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This past winter (1911) Miss Russell and Mrs. Ament opened rooms in a court directly opening from a gate on the main street, where they received their lady guests, held classes and small lectures, etc. Nowhere in Peking was there a daintier, prettier reception-room.

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**Who acts:** past winter, rooms, Peking · **What happens:** open, receive, hold, be · **To what, where:** rooms, court, gate, lady guests, etc.

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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 (past winter, rooms, Peking), 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:pg75089:4:48
# text = This past winter (1911) Miss Russell and Mrs. Ament opened rooms in a court directly opening from a gate on the main street, where they received their lady guests, held classes and small lectures, etc. Nowhere in Peking was there a daintier, prettier reception-room.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	Ament	Ament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	lectures	lecture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
41	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	acl:relcl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
47	daintier	dainty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	52	amod	_	_
50	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | this past winter | rooms |  | a court |  | Miss and Mrs. *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent room=Theme in court=Location |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | this past winter *not said here* |  |  | a gate |  | on the main street; directly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on street=Location |
| 3 | **receive** | past | rooms *= room* | rooms's lady guests and held classes and small lectures |  |  |  | etc. *obj* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent guest=Theme etc.=Location |
| 4 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Peking | etc. *not said here* |  |  |  | a daintier prettier reception room *obl*; there *property* | tree rules |

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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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