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title: To the question as to whether their contest was to be of military sk… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: To the question as to whether their contest was to be of military skill or a contest of mind, the monkey chose the latter. Who acts: contest, monkey, ministers. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its depend
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 74

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To the question as to whether their contest was to be of military skill or a contest of mind, the monkey chose the latter.

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**Who acts:** contest, monkey, ministers · **What happens:** be, choose, contest · **To what, where:** latter, mind

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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 (contest, monkey, ministers), 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:pg75089:16:74
# text = To the question as to whether their contest was to be of military skill or a contest of mind, the monkey chose the latter.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ministers's contest |  |  |  |  | as military skill or a contest of mind | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | past | the monkey | the latter |  |  |  | to the question | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latter=Theme |
| 3 | **contest** |  | ministers *= minister* |  |  |  |  |  | nom contest «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **contest** |  |  | mind |  |  |  |  | nom contest «event 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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