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description: We have a great and powerful enemy and it is only by this quiet living that you and I have lived in peace. Who acts: We, enemy, quiet living. 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 cl
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 21

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We have a great and powerful enemy and it is only by this quiet living that you and I have lived in peace.

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**Who acts:** We, enemy, quiet living · **What happens:** have, be, live · **To what, where:** great enemy, peace

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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 (We, enemy, quiet living), 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:pg75089:18:21
# text = We have a great and powerful enemy and it is only by this quiet living that you and I have lived in peace.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | a great enemy and this quiet living |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | enemy |  |  |  |  | by this quiet living | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present · perfect | this quiet living |  |  | peace |  | you *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=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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