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title: 71 The Jade Treasure 82 Chinese Heroism 88 Literary Glory 92 How the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: 71 The Jade Treasure 82 Chinese Heroism 88 Literary Glory 92 How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies 98 A Daughter of the Present 106 T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics 110 A Story of Old China 124 Who acts: Dog, Enemies. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 55

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71 The Jade Treasure 82 Chinese Heroism 88 Literary Glory 92 How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies 98 A Daughter of the Present 106 T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics 110 A Story of Old China 124

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**Who acts:** Dog, Enemies · **What happens:** come, be, journey, get · **To what, where:** Enemies, Story, Buddhist Classics, 71

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, Enemies), 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:pg75089:1:55
# text = 71 The Jade Treasure 82 Chinese Heroism 88 Literary Glory 92 How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies 98 A Daughter of the Present 106 T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics 110 A Story of Old China 124
1	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Jade	Jade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Treasure	Treasure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	82	82	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Heroism	Heroism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	Literary	Literary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Glory	Glory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	92	92	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	list	_	_
12	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	Came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	Enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
21	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Daughter	Daughter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Present	Present	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	106	106	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
28	T’ang	T'ang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
31	Journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Classics	Classic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	110	110	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	flat	_	_
38	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	124	124	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Dog and Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Enemies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **journey** |  | Enemies |  |  |  |  | a Daughter of the Present *nsubj*; T’ang *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | the Dog and Cat *not said here* | a Story of Old China | the Buddhist Classics |  |  | 124 *obl:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent classic=Beneficiary story=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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