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title: In all these years we have not had a single quarrel and that cannot… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In all these years we have not had a single quarrel and that cannot be said of any other family. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 34

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In all these years we have not had a single quarrel and that cannot be said of any other family.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not have, not say · **To what, where:** single quarrel, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we), 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:pg75089:13:34
# text = In all these years we have not had a single quarrel and that cannot be said of any other family.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · perfect | we | a single quarrel |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of any other family | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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