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title: This eventuated in a plan for fifty lectures, often a missionary and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This eventuated in a plan for fifty lectures, often a missionary and a Chinese lady speaking on the same subject, and thus reinforcing each other. Who acts: Chinese lady. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependenc
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 64

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This eventuated in a plan for fifty lectures, often a missionary and a Chinese lady speaking on the same subject, and thus reinforcing each other.

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**Who acts:** Chinese lady · **What happens:** eventuate, speak, reinforce · **To what, where:** This, plan, same subject, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 lady), 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:pg75089:4:64
# text = This eventuated in a plan for fifty lectures, often a missionary and a Chinese lady speaking on the same subject, and thus reinforcing each other.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	eventuated	eventuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	lectures	lecture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	reinforcing	reinforce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	25	obj	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eventuate** | participle · passive |  | This |  | a plan for fifty lectures and a missionary and a Chinese lady |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a Chinese lady *not said here* |  |  | the same subject |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reinforce** | gerund |  | each |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot each=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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