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title: The name of its founder, Wu Wang, means “Warrior Prince,” and, thoug… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The name of its founder, Wu Wang, means “Warrior Prince,” and, though an usurper, he was a most exemplary monarch. Who acts: name, Wu. 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 2

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The name of its founder, Wu Wang, means “Warrior Prince,” and, though an usurper, he was a most exemplary monarch.

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**Who acts:** name, Wu · **What happens:** mean, be, name · **To what, where:** Warrior, exemplary monarch, founder

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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: who acts (name, Wu), 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:pg75089:11:2
# text = The name of its founder, Wu Wang, means “Warrior Prince,” and, though an usurper, he was a most exemplary monarch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Wu	Wu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Warrior	Warrior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	usurper	usurper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	exemplary	exemplary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the name of name's founder | Warrior and a usurper and a exemplary monarch |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Wu | a exemplary monarch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | name's founder |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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