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title: Among the ancient dynasties of China that of the Chou, 1123 B.C., ra… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the ancient dynasties of China that of the Chou, 1123 B.C., ranks as one of the most important. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 1

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Among the ancient dynasties of China that of the Chou, 1123 B.C., ranks as one of the most important.

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**What happens:** rank · **To what, where:** that

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. 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:pg75089:11:1
# text = Among the ancient dynasties of China that of the Chou, 1123 B.C., ranks as one of the most important.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Chou	Chou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1123	1123	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	_
13	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present |  | that |  |  |  | among the ancient dynasties of China; of the Chou; as one of the important | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme as one=Attribute |

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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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