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title: In the reign of Chia Ching, Emperor of China from 1522 to 1537 A.D.,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In the reign of Chia Ching, Emperor of China from 1522 to 1537 A.D., there lived in Peking a powerful official by the name of Tu (“Du”). Who acts: powerful official. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and th
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 1

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In the reign of Chia Ching, Emperor of China from 1522 to 1537 A.D., there lived in Peking a powerful official by the name of Tu (“Du”).

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**Who acts:** powerful official · **What happens:** live, name · **To what, where:** reign, Tu

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful official), 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:pg75089:17:1
# text = In the reign of Chia Ching, Emperor of China from 1522 to 1537 A.D., there lived in Peking a powerful official by the name of Tu (“Du”).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Chia	Chia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ching	Ching	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1522	1522	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1537	1537	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Du	Du	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a powerful official by the name of Tu |  |  | the reign of Chia Ching from 1522 to 1537  A.D; there |  | in Peking | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reign=Location |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | Tu |  |  |  |  | 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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