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title: Together they went back to the city, and some weeks later the poor h… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Together they went back to the city, and some weeks later the poor heart was comforted by the birth of her little son. Who acts: gods, birth. 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 7

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Together they went back to the city, and some weeks later the poor heart was comforted by the birth of her little son.

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**Who acts:** gods, birth · **What happens:** go back, comfort · **To what, where:** poor heart

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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 (gods, birth), 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:pg75089:18:7
# text = Together they went back to the city, and some weeks later the poor heart was comforted by the birth of her little son.
1	Together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  | to the city *result*; together *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result |
| 2 | **comfort** | past · passive | the birth of friend's little son | the poor heart |  |  |  | late *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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