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title: The casket with its covering of beautiful vines and white flowers, r… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The casket with its covering of beautiful vines and white flowers, roses, day lilies, tuberoses, spirea, stood in front of the altar and was carried by the friends to the grave, where loving hands had arranged the beautiful wild date branches and vines as a lining. Who acts: casket, friends, loving 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 21

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The casket with its covering of beautiful vines and white flowers, roses, day lilies, tuberoses, spirea, stood in front of the altar and was carried by the friends to the grave, where loving hands had arranged the beautiful wild date branches and vines as a lining.

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**Who acts:** casket, friends, loving hands · **What happens:** stand, carry, arrange · **To what, where:** front, grave, beautiful wild date branches

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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 (casket, friends, loving hands), 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:pg75089:5:21
# text = The casket with its covering of beautiful vines and white flowers, roses, day lilies, tuberoses, spirea, stood in front of the altar and was carried by the friends to the grave, where loving hands had arranged the beautiful wild date branches and vines as a lining.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tuberoses	tuberose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	spirea	spirea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	42	advmod	_	_
39	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
45	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	lining	lining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the casket with casket's covering of beautiful vines and white flowers and roses and day lilies and tuberoses and spirea |  |  | front of the altar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | past · passive | the friends |  |  | the grave |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to grave=Destination |
| 3 | **arrange** | past · perfect | loving hands | the beautiful wild date branches and vines |  |  |  | as a lining | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Product |

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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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