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title: Two secretaries of Legation, physicians of the Union Medical College… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Two secretaries of Legation, physicians of the Union Medical College, fellow-workers, and old-time friends were there; native pastors, Bible women, and church friends, servants and guards of honour sent by the military governor of the city and by the chief of the civil administration. Who acts: time
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 19

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Two secretaries of Legation, physicians of the Union Medical College, fellow-workers, and old-time friends were there; native pastors, Bible women, and church friends, servants and guards of honour sent by the military governor of the city and by the chief of the civil administration.

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**Who acts:** time friends · **What happens:** be, send · **To what, where:** honour, Two secretaries

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time friends), 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:pg75089:5:19
# text = Two secretaries of Legation, physicians of the Union Medical College, fellow-workers, and old-time friends were there; native pastors, Bible women, and church friends, servants and guards of honour sent by the military governor of the city and by the chief of the civil administration.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	secretaries	secretary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Legation	Legation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Medical	Medical	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pastors	pastor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:agent	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | time friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | participle |  | honour *not said here* |  |  |  | the military governor of the city and the chief of the civil administration *obl:agent* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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