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title: He used to live in my sea, and is my special food fish, but he rebel… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: He used to live in my sea, and is my special food fish, but he rebelled and ran away and for many years has lived in the great river. Who acts: monkey. 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
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 60

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He used to live in my sea, and is my special food fish, but he rebelled and ran away and for many years has lived in the great river.

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**Who acts:** monkey · **What happens:** use, live, be, rebel, run away · **To what, where:** sea, special food fish, great river

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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 (monkey), 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:pg75089:16:60
# text = He used to live in my sea, and is my special food fish, but he rebelled and ran away and for many years has lived in the great river.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rebelled	rebel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | monkey *not said here* |  |  | my sea |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | my special food fish |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rebel** | past | monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run away** | past | monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | present · perfect | monkey *not said here* |  |  | the great river | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |

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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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