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title: The Chinese, in the desire to be “enlightened” and like Europeans, w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chinese, in the desire to be “enlightened” and like Europeans, which has temporarily seized them, have too often banished their beautiful furniture from their reception-rooms, substituting an inferior European article. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 51

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The Chinese, in the desire to be “enlightened” and like Europeans, which has temporarily seized them, have too often banished their beautiful furniture from their reception-rooms, substituting an inferior European article.

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**What happens:** enlighten, seize, banish, substitute · **To what, where:** Europeans, Chinese desire, reception rooms, inferior European article

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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: 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:pg75089:4:51
# text = The Chinese, in the desire to be “enlightened” and like Europeans, which has temporarily seized them, have too often banished their beautiful furniture from their reception-rooms, substituting an inferior European article.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	substituting	substitute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enlighten** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **seize** | present · perfect · passive |  | Europeans |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass*; flowers *= flower* *obj*; temporarily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **banish** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Chinese desire |  | flowers's reception rooms |  | flowers's beautiful furniture *obj*; often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **substitute** | gerund |  | a inferior European article |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme article=Location |

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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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