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title: Many friends had roamed the hills and meadows, bringing a variety of… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Many friends had roamed the hills and meadows, bringing a variety of flowers—wild pinks, fine everlastings peculiar to Pei Tai Ho, also a feathery foliage, and had massed them on piano and organ before the pulpit with beautiful effect. Who acts: Many friends. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese fo
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 2

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Many friends had roamed the hills and meadows, bringing a variety of flowers—wild pinks, fine everlastings peculiar to Pei Tai Ho, also a feathery foliage, and had massed them on piano and organ before the pulpit with beautiful effect.

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**Who acts:** Many friends · **What happens:** roam, bring, mass · **To what, where:** hills, variety, piano

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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 (Many 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:pg75089:5:2
# text = Many friends had roamed the hills and meadows, bringing a variety of flowers—wild pinks, fine everlastings peculiar to Pei Tai Ho, also a feathery foliage, and had massed them on piano and organ before the pulpit with beautiful effect.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	roamed	roam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	everlastings	everlasting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	compound	_	_
21	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	Tai	Tai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	massed	mass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | past · perfect | Many friends | the hills and meadows |  |  |  | wild pinks to Pei Ho and everlastings peculiar and a feathery foliage *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | Many friends *not said here* | a variety of flowers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent variety=Theme |
| 3 | **mass** | past · perfect | Many friends *not said here* | hills *= hill* |  | piano and organ | before the pulpit with beautiful effect |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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