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title: Their great enemy year by year grew richer, and more powerful, and m… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Their great enemy year by year grew richer, and more powerful, and more unscrupulous. Who acts: great enemy. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 11

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Their great enemy year by year grew richer, and more powerful, and more unscrupulous.

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**Who acts:** great enemy · **What happens:** grow

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great enemy), 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:pg75089:18:11
# text = Their great enemy year by year grew richer, and more powerful, and more unscrupulous.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	unscrupulous	unscrupulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | words's great enemy  year by year |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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