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title: Possibly by long years of tears, prayers, and self-denial the great… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Possibly by long years of tears, prayers, and self-denial the great Buddha will have compassion on me, and I too may find Peace. Who acts: self denial, I. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 64

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Possibly by long years of tears, prayers, and self-denial the great Buddha will have compassion on me, and I too may find Peace.

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**Who acts:** self denial, I · **What happens:** have, find · **To what, where:** compassion, Peace

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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 (self denial, I), 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:pg75089:10:64
# text = Possibly by long years of tears, prayers, and self-denial the great Buddha will have compassion on me, and I too may find Peace.
1	Possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	denial	denial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	Peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | self denial | compassion |  |  |  | on me; the great Buddha *nsubj*; possibly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | may | I | Peace |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Topic |

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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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