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title: Ting Lang’s writing was pronounced perfect by the Emperor, the style… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Ting Lang’s writing was pronounced perfect by the Emperor, the style most elegant. Who acts: Emperor, Lang. 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 57

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Ting Lang’s writing was pronounced perfect by the Emperor, the style most elegant.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, Lang · **What happens:** pronounce, write · **To what, where:** Ting 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 (Emperor, Lang), 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:pg75089:20:57
# text = Ting Lang’s writing was pronounced perfect by the Emperor, the style most elegant.
1	Ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | past · passive | the Emperor | Lang's Ting writing |  |  |  | perfect *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **write** |  | Lang |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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