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title: From of old the scholars and writers of all lands have desired and s… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: From of old the scholars and writers of all lands have desired and sought for literary glory, and have considered it far more precious than gold or gems. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 2

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From of old the scholars and writers of all lands have desired and sought for literary glory, and have considered it far more precious than gold or gems.

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**What happens:** desire, seek, consider · **To what, where:** scholars, old, glory

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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: 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:pg75089:13:2
# text = From of old the scholars and writers of all lands have desired and sought for literary glory, and have considered it far more precious than gold or gems.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present · perfect · passive |  | the scholars of all lands and writers |  | old |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for literary glory | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for glory=Theme |
| 3 | **consider** | present · perfect |  | glory |  |  |  | precious *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=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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