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title: Because of this we always fly either in the shape of the character ‘… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of this we always fly either in the shape of the character ‘Man’ or the figure one. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 31

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Because of this we always fly either in the shape of the character ‘Man’ or the figure one.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** shape

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg75089:8:31
# text = Because of this we always fly either in the shape of the character ‘Man’ or the figure one.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc:preconj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | we |  |  | the shape of the character or the figure one |  | because this; always *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shape=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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