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title: Now for months Wen Jung has had evening prayers and has taught me to… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Now for months Wen Jung has had evening prayers and has taught me to pray.” Who acts: Wen. 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 47

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Now for months Wen Jung has had evening prayers and has taught me to pray.”

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** have, teach, pray · **To what, where:** evening prayers, me

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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 (Wen), 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:pg75089:13:47
# text = Now for months Wen Jung has had evening prayers and has taught me to pray.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Jung	Jung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | Wen | evening prayers |  |  | month |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Wen *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive | Wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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