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title: It adjoins the grounds of the great and more wicked Yen Sung. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: It adjoins the grounds of the great and more wicked Yen Sung. Who acts: place. 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 24

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It adjoins the grounds of the great and more wicked Yen Sung.

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**Who acts:** place · **What happens:** adjoin · **To what, where:** grounds

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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 (place), 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:pg75089:21:24
# text = It adjoins the grounds of the great and more wicked Yen Sung.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adjoins	adjoin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adjoin** | present | place | the grounds of the great Yen Sung |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grounds=Co-Theme |

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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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