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description: I do not desire it, and I have come to you, my Teachers, for instruction as to the way of attaining purification and the true life.” Who acts: I, way. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 116

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I do not desire it, and I have come to you, my Teachers, for instruction as to the way of attaining purification and the true life.”

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**Who acts:** I, way · **What happens:** not desire, come, attain · **To what, where:** luxury, you, purification

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way), 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:pg75089:10:116
# text = I do not desire it, and I have come to you, my Teachers, for instruction as to the way of attaining purification and the true life.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	attaining	attain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **desire** | present · do-support | I | luxury |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  | you |  |  | for instruction as the way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **attain** | gerund | the way *not said here* | purification and the true life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purification=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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