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title: Seven years ago she left her school home for the home of her husband… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven years ago she left her school home for the home of her husband who lived in the village of Lu T’ai, fifteen miles northeast of Peking. Who acts: girl, husband. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 10

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Seven years ago she left her school home for the home of her husband who lived in the village of Lu T’ai, fifteen miles northeast of Peking.

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**Who acts:** girl, husband · **What happens:** leave, live · **To what, where:** school, village

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, husband), 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:pg75089:13:10
# text = Seven years ago she left her school home for the home of her husband who lived in the village of Lu T’ai, fifteen miles northeast of Peking.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Lu	Lu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	T’ai	T'ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | girl | girl's school |  |  |  | for the home of girl's husband; ago, home *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Theme for home=Recipient |
| 2 | **live** | past | girl's husband |  |  | the village of Lu and miles northeast of Peking |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |

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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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