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title: The mound as we left it was beautiful with the sides covered with th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The mound as we left it was beautiful with the sides covered with the green vines and date branches, and on top the lovely floral pieces and coloured flowers, two great wreaths of the long palm leaves and roses, and at the head a floral cross. Who acts: we, mound. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chine
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 23

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The mound as we left it was beautiful with the sides covered with the green vines and date branches, and on top the lovely floral pieces and coloured flowers, two great wreaths of the long palm leaves and roses, and at the head a floral cross.

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**Who acts:** we, mound · **What happens:** leave, be, cover · **To what, where:** mound, top, sides

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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 (we, mound), 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:pg75089:5:23
# text = The mound as we left it was beautiful with the sides covered with the green vines and date branches, and on top the lovely floral pieces and coloured flowers, two great wreaths of the long palm leaves and roses, and at the head a floral cross.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	floral	floral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	floral	floral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | we | mound |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mound |  |  | top and the lovely floral pieces and coloured flowers and two great wreaths of the long palm leaves and roses and a floral cross at the head |  | with the sides; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | the sides *not said here* |  |  |  | with the green vines and date branches | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vine=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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