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title: This did not mean freedom, but instead of death came banishment for… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This did not mean freedom, but instead of death came banishment for life to some other and distant province. Who acts: This, banishment. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 78

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This did not mean freedom, but instead of death came banishment for life to some other and distant province.

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**Who acts:** This, banishment · **What happens:** not mean, come · **To what, where:** freedom, other province

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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 (This, banishment), 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:pg75089:17:78
# text = This did not mean freedom, but instead of death came banishment for life to some other and distant province.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	banishment	banishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | past · do-support | This | freedom |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | banishment for life |  |  | some other province |  | instead death | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to province=Initial\_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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