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title: With a jump he was in Heaven; to his petition the great God said, “T… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With a jump he was in Heaven; to his petition the great God said, “There is no rain for Thibet for three years.” Who acts: Sun, great God, rain. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its dependency tree and th
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 104

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With a jump he was in Heaven; to his petition the great God said, “There is no rain for Thibet for three years.”

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**Who acts:** Sun, great God, rain · **What happens:** be, say, petition · **To what, where:** Heaven, petition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, great God, rain), 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:pg75089:16:104
# text = With a jump he was in Heaven; to his petition the great God said, “There is no rain for Thibet for three years.”
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Thibet	Thibet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sun |  |  | Heaven |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the great God |  | Sun's petition |  |  | with a jump | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to petition=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no rain for Thibet for three years |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **petition** |  | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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