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title: In this room there was a beautiful blending of European and Chinese… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In this room there was a beautiful blending of European and Chinese furnishings, with Chinese largely predominating. Who acts: Chinese. 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 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 52

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In this room there was a beautiful blending of European and Chinese furnishings, with Chinese largely predominating.

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**Who acts:** Chinese · **What happens:** be, predominate · **To what, where:** beautiful blending, room

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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 (Chinese), 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:pg75089:4:52
# text = In this room there was a beautiful blending of European and Chinese furnishings, with Chinese largely predominating.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	blending	blending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	furnishings	furnishings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
17	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	predominating	predominate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a beautiful blending |  | this room |  | of European furnishings; Chinese *list* | tree rules |
| 2 | **predominate** | gerund | Chinese *not said here* |  |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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