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title: Tents were erected, seats rented, tea served, and there large and sm… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Tents were erected, seats rented, tea served, and there large and small groups of women heard the Gospel message for the first time. Who acts: seats, tea, small groups. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, with its dependency 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 66

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Tents were erected, seats rented, tea served, and there large and small groups of women heard the Gospel message for the first time.

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**Who acts:** seats, tea, small groups · **What happens:** erect, rent, serve, hear · **To what, where:** Tents, Gospel message

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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 (seats, tea, small groups), 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:pg75089:4:66
# text = Tents were erected, seats rented, tea served, and there large and small groups of women heard the Gospel message for the first time.
1	Tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rented	rent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erect** | past · passive |  | Tents |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **rent** | past | seats |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serve** | past | tea |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past | small groups of women | the Gospel message |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus |

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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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