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title: She wore a white embroidered dress, and about her lay sprays of cypr… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She wore a white embroidered dress, and about her lay sprays of cypress vine. Who acts: Miss. 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 6

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She wore a white embroidered dress, and about her lay sprays of cypress vine.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** wear, embroider · **To what, where:** white embroidered dress

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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 (Miss), 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:pg75089:5:6
# text = She wore a white embroidered dress, and about her lay sprays of cypress vine.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lay	lay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sprays	spray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Miss | a white embroidered dress |  |  |  | about Miss's lay sprays of cypress vine | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «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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