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title: You left my poor sister in sorrow and poverty for twelve long years,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: You left my poor sister in sorrow and poverty for twelve long years, while you have lived in luxury and pleasures. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 79

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You left my poor sister in sorrow and poverty for twelve long years, while you have lived in luxury and pleasures.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** leave, live · **To what, where:** poor sister, sorrow, luxury

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg75089:19:79
# text = You left my poor sister in sorrow and poverty for twelve long years, while you have lived in luxury and pleasures.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | You |  | my poor sister | sorrow and poverty | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme in sorrow=Location |
| 2 | **live** | present · perfect | you |  |  | luxury and pleasures |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxury=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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