--- title: Our friend, not content in keeping this means—the lecture and class… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Our friend, not content in keeping this means—the lecture and class courses—of reaching women confined to our Mission, one day a year ago invited the representatives of all the Missions in Peking to her study. Who acts: friend, women, woman. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/62/) [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/) / 62 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 62 Our friend, not content in keeping this means—the lecture and class courses—of reaching women confined to our Mission, one day a year ago invited the representatives of all the Missions in Peking to her study. **Who acts:** friend, women, woman · **What happens:** keep, mean, reach, confine, invite, study · **To what, where:** this, lecture, Mission, representatives 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 (friend, women, woman), 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:pg75089:4:62 # text = Our friend, not content in keeping this means—the lecture and class courses—of reaching women confined to our Mission, one day a year ago invited the representatives of all the Missions in Peking to her study. 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 6 in in SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obj _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 lecture lecture NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 courses course NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 confined confine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 Mission Mission PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 ago ago ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 representatives representative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Missions mission NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Peking Peking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | gerund | Our friend *not said here* | this | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Our friend | the lecture and class courses | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Topic | | 3 | **reach** | gerund | Our friend *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **confine** | past | women | | our Mission | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mission=Destination | | 5 | **invite** | past | Our friend *not said here* | the representatives of all Missions in Peking | | | day; year | to woman's study; ago *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representative=Recipient | | 6 | **study** | | woman | | | | | | nom study «act transitive»: poss=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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/4/63/) - ↑ back to [Miss Nellie N. 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