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title: All this time the four strange companions were living in great comfo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time the four strange companions were living in great comfort with the rich man of the house, who gave them many rich presents and much food. Who acts: four strange companions, house. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Bu
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 49

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All this time the four strange companions were living in great comfort with the rich man of the house, who gave them many rich presents and much food.

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**Who acts:** four strange companions, house · **What happens:** live, give · **To what, where:** great comfort, many rich presents, companions

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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 (four strange companions, house), 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:pg75089:16:49
# text = All this time the four strange companions were living in great comfort with the rich man of the house, who gave them many rich presents and much food.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 · progressive | the four strange companions |  |  | great comfort | time | with the rich man of the house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | the house | many rich presents and much food | companions *= companion* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme |

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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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