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title: In Manchuria, not far from Mukden, lived a well-to-do farmer by the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In Manchuria, not far from Mukden, lived a well-to-do farmer by the name of Lee. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 1

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In Manchuria, not far from Mukden, lived a well-to-do farmer by the name of Lee.

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**What happens:** live, do, name · **To what, where:** Manchuria, farmer, Lee

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. 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:pg75089:15:1
# text = In Manchuria, not far from Mukden, lived a well-to-do farmer by the name of Lee.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Manchuria	Manchuria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mukden	Mukden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | Manchuria and Mukden |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive |  | farmer |  |  |  | by the name of Lee; well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Lee |  |  |  |  | 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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