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title: (At the present time, characters written by him hang in the Hall of… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: (At the present time, characters written by him hang in the Hall of Classics in Peking as a model of perfect writing.) Who acts: characters. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 53

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(At the present time, characters written by him hang in the Hall of Classics in Peking as a model of perfect writing.)

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**Who acts:** characters · **What happens:** write, hang, model · **To what, where:** characters, Hall, perfect writing

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (characters), 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:pg75089:20:53
# text = (At the present time, characters written by him hang in the Hall of Classics in Peking as a model of perfect writing.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Classics	classic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  | characters *not said here* |  |  |  | by enemy | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | present | characters |  |  | the Hall of Classics in Peking | time | as a model of perfect writing | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 3 | **model** |  |  | perfect writing |  |  |  |  | nom model «cognition 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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