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title: His young wife, Yü Yüch Ying, was very beautiful, according to tradi… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: His young wife, Yü Yüch Ying, was very beautiful, according to tradition in song and story one of the most beautiful in all the Empire; not only noted for her beauty of face and form, but even more beautiful character. Who acts: young wife. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie N
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 22

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His young wife, Yü Yüch Ying, was very beautiful, according to tradition in song and story one of the most beautiful in all the Empire; not only noted for her beauty of face and form, but even more beautiful character.

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**Who acts:** young wife · **What happens:** be, accord, not note

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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 (young wife), 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:pg75089:17:22
# text = His young wife, Yü Yüch Ying, was very beautiful, according to tradition in song and story one of the most beautiful in all the Empire; not only noted for her beauty of face and form, but even more beautiful character.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Yü	Yü	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	even	even	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | son's young wife |  |  |  |  | tradition in song and story *parataxis*; beautiful character *parataxis*; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **note** | participle | son's young wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Ying's beauty of face and form | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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