--- title: Some of the ladies, when they found they would be free to have meeti… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the ladies, when they found they would be free to have meetings here, said, “So often we want to meet together, we who are interested in the progress of our women, and plan and talk over matters. Who acts: rooms, ladies, we, women. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Na --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/) / 53 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 53 Some of the ladies, when they found they would be free to have meetings here, said, “So often we want to meet together, we who are interested in the progress of our women, and plan and talk over matters. **Who acts:** rooms, ladies, we, women · **What happens:** find, be, have, say, want, meet · **To what, where:** meetings, progress, matters · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (rooms, ladies, we, women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:4:53 # text = Some of the ladies, when they found they would be free to have meetings here, said, “So often we want to meet together, we who are interested in the progress of our women, and plan and talk over matters. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 15 meetings meeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 So so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 together together ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 plan plan VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 talk talk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | rooms *= room* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | would | rooms *= room* | | | | | free *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | rooms *= room* *not said here* | meetings | | here | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some ladies | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **meet** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | the progress of our women | | who *nsubj*; interested *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **plan** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | matters | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **progress** *in a quote* | | our women | | | | | | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/54/) - ↑ back to [Miss Nellie N. 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