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title: There is no other song among the many they sing that produces the ef… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no other song among the many they sing that produces the effect that this one does; man by man they seem to live over the little lad’s life. Who acts: other song, father, that, one. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5, with i
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 19

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There is no other song among the many they sing that produces the effect that this one does; man by man they seem to live over the little lad’s life.

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**Who acts:** other song, father, that, one, man · **What happens:** be, sing, produce, do, seem, live · **To what, where:** many, effect, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (other song, father, that, one), 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:pg75089:21:19
# text = There is no other song among the many they sing that produces the effect that this one does; man by man they seem to live over the little lad’s life.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	produces	produce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no other song |  |  | the many; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among many=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **produce** | present | that | the effect |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result |
| 4 | **do** | present | this one |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **seem** | present | man by man |  |  |  |  | father *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | man by man *not said here* |  |  | the little lad's life |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over life=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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