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title: This place was not guarded, as it was supposed to be impossible of a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This place was not guarded, as it was supposed to be impossible of ascent. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 71

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This place was not guarded, as it was supposed to be impossible of ascent.

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**What happens:** not guard, suppose, be · **To what, where:** place

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75089:9:71
# text = This place was not guarded, as it was supposed to be impossible of ascent.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **guard** | past · passive |  | this place |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **suppose** | past · passive |  | place |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of ascent; impossible *property* | 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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