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title: Many hundreds of years ago, there lived far away in the northern mou… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Many hundreds of years ago, there lived far away in the northern mountains of China a very beautiful girl, named Liu Chin Ting. Who acts: Many hundreds. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 1

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Many hundreds of years ago, there lived far away in the northern mountains of China a very beautiful girl, named Liu Chin Ting.

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**Who acts:** Many hundreds · **What happens:** live, name · **To what, where:** northern mountains, beautiful girl

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many hundreds), 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:pg75089:6:1
# text = Many hundreds of years ago, there lived far away in the northern mountains of China a very beautiful girl, named Liu Chin Ting.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	Liu	Liu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Many hundreds of years |  |  | the northern mountains of China; there |  | a beautiful girl *advcl*; away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a beautiful girl *not said here* |  |  |  | Liu  Ting *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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