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title: A picture showing her attack on the gates of Yang Chow is a great fa… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: A picture showing her attack on the gates of Yang Chow is a great favourite with the Chinese, and always on sale at the New Year when Chinese homes are freshly decorated. Who acts: picture, stronghold. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, wit
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 38

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A picture showing her attack on the gates of Yang Chow is a great favourite with the Chinese, and always on sale at the New Year when Chinese homes are freshly decorated.

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**Who acts:** picture, stronghold · **What happens:** show, be, decorate, attack · **To what, where:** attack, gates, great favourite, Chinese homes

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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 (picture, stronghold), 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:pg75089:6:38
# text = A picture showing her attack on the gates of Yang Chow is a great favourite with the Chinese, and always on sale at the New Year when Chinese homes are freshly decorated.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Yang	Yang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Chow	chow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
29	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	freshly	freshly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund | a picture *not said here* | stronghold's attack |  | the gates of Yang Chow |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent attack=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a picture | a great favourite and sale at the New Year |  |  |  | with the Chinese; sale at the New Year *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **decorate** | present · passive |  | Chinese homes |  |  |  | freshly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **attack** |  | stronghold |  |  |  |  |  | nom attack «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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