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title: We believe in the ‘Three Bonds,’ i.e., Prince and Minister, Husband… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: We believe in the ‘Three Bonds,’ i.e., Prince and Minister, Husband and Wife, Father and Son. 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 33

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We believe in the ‘Three Bonds,’ i.e., Prince and Minister, Husband and Wife, Father and Son.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** believe · **To what, where:** Three Bonds

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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:pg75089:8:33
# text = We believe in the ‘Three Bonds,’ i.e., Prince and Minister, Husband and Wife, Father and Son.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	ccomp	_	_
10	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	9	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Husband	Husband	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | We |  |  | the Three Bonds |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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