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title: This year it came to Ting Lang and the degree of “Pang Yen” to his b… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This year it came to Ting Lang and the degree of “Pang Yen” to his brother. Who acts: power. 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 clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 56

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This year it came to Ting Lang and the degree of “Pang Yen” to his brother.

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**Who acts:** power · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** brother, Ting

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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 (power), 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:pg75089:20:56
# text = This year it came to Ting Lang and the degree of “Pang Yen” to his brother.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Pang	Pang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | power |  | Ting's brother | Ting and the degree of Pang Yen | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ting=Initial\_Location to brother=Destination |

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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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