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title: The year little Ting Lang was twelve the display of the Lantern Feas… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The year little Ting Lang was twelve the display of the Lantern Feast, the fifteenth of the first month, was most beautiful, and among all displays none exceeded Yen Sung’s. Who acts: year, display, none. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 12

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The year little Ting Lang was twelve the display of the Lantern Feast, the fifteenth of the first month, was most beautiful, and among all displays none exceeded Yen Sung’s.

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**Who acts:** year, display, none · **What happens:** be, exceed, display · **To what, where:** twelve, Yen Sung, Lantern Feast

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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 (year, display, none), 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:pg75089:18:12
# text = The year little Ting Lang was twelve the display of the Lantern Feast, the fifteenth of the first month, was most beautiful, and among all displays none exceeded Yen Sung’s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Lantern	Lantern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Feast	Feast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fifteenth	fifteenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	displays	display	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	31	nsubj	_	_
31	exceeded	exceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the year | twelve |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the display of the Lantern Feast |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exceed** | past | none | Yen Sung |  |  |  | among all displays | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sung=Theme |
| 4 | **display** |  |  | the Lantern Feast |  |  |  |  | nom display «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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