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title: Yü Yüch Ying lived to see and hold her great grandchildren, and to s… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Yü Yüch Ying lived to see and hold her great grandchildren, and to see great glory come to their house. Who acts: Yü, great glory. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 10

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Yü Yüch Ying lived to see and hold her great grandchildren, and to see great glory come to their house.

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**Who acts:** Yü, great glory · **What happens:** live, see, hold, come · **To what, where:** great grandchildren, great glory, house

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yü, great glory), 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:pg75089:21:10
# text = Yü Yüch Ying lived to see and hold her great grandchildren, and to see great glory come to their house.
1	Yü	Yü	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Yü |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Yü *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | Yü *not said here* | Yü's great grandchildren |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Yü *not said here* | great glory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive | great glory *not said here* |  |  | sons's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_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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