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title: The chapel had as many people standing as there were sitting. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The chapel had as many people standing as there were sitting. Who acts: chapel, many people. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 20

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The chapel had as many people standing as there were sitting.

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**Who acts:** chapel, many people · **What happens:** have, stand, be, sit · **To what, where:** many people

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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 (chapel, many people), 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:pg75089:5:20
# text = The chapel had as many people standing as there were sitting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the chapel | many people |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | many people *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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