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title: The long journey to Peking accomplished, a large number of friends,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The long journey to Peking accomplished, a large number of friends, foreign and Chinese, awaited us, and next morning followed the flower-laden bier to the cemetery. Who acts: long journey. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, with 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 8

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The long journey to Peking accomplished, a large number of friends, foreign and Chinese, awaited us, and next morning followed the flower-laden bier to the cemetery.

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**Who acts:** long journey · **What happens:** accomplish, await, follow, lade · **To what, where:** large number, us, laden bier, cemetery

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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 (long journey), 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:pg75089:5:8
# text = The long journey to Peking accomplished, a large number of friends, foreign and Chinese, awaited us, and next morning followed the flower-laden bier to the cemetery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	awaited	await	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | past | the long journey to Peking | a large number of friends |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Eventuality |
| 2 | **await** | participle | the long journey to Peking *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the long journey to Peking *not said here* | the laden bier |  | the cemetery | morning |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bier=Theme to cemetery=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | flower *compound* | tree rules |

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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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